WST representatives send a letter to Attorney General Elise Archer requesting to include protections for females on the grounds of biological ‘sex’ in the Anti-Discrimination Act
Dear Attorney General, Elise Archer
We are writing to formally request that the Government consider drafting a bill for amendment of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) to include protections for female persons on the grounds of biological ‘sex’.
The recent amendments to the Anti-Discrimination Act and the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas), resulting in bad law, fast tracked without proper consultation or debate, do not properly define ‘sex’ in order to distinguish the term from the now carefully, but somewhat incomprehensibly, defined concept of ‘gender’.
Currently girls and women who understand their ‘sex’ as a material reality and not an optional social construct or ‘identity’ have no protections under anti-discrimination law.
We would also like to inform you of a recent matter apparently taken to Tasmania Police and outlined in this online comment from Andrew in an article in the Mercury by David Killick
or find here:
ANDREW:
“If you want to see the Pandora’s box this will open google for a website called 4th wave now. This site was an amazing resource to me as a parent when one of my children was pressured by a local trans counselling service to change gender. After being shown by my child the messages between the adult in charge of the counselling and them, it was clear that it was a case of grooming and was referred to the police. It was seriously creepy and bordering on cult-like.
My child was not trans at all and, according to their own words a few months later, simply an emotionally messed up teenager trying to find their way and had had “a teenage moment”. Now a happy and vibrant young person moving into adulthood.
The rise of social media “group think” has seen local school trans clusters develop as the next cool thing to do. Kids who are on the outer find such groups welcoming and self-identify with others and after a few weeks or months of intense immersion in this social media environment the inevitable happens, all at the encouragement of others in the group trying to justify their own decisions.
I respect my child and other teenagers, but to think that a 16 year old has any advanced reasoning skills or capability to make a rational decision on what could be a life changing issue is simply not true.”
Is the Attorney-General’s office aware of this matter, or any similar complaints to Tasmania Police?
We look forward to further communication on these issues in future.
Kind regards
Isla MacGregor
Bronwyn Williams