A feminist group has been banned from using free office facilities normally available to community organisations because Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said it holds ‘trans-exlusionary’ views.
Andrew Wilkie has banned Women Speak Tasmania from using taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart.
The federal member for Clark said his sensitivity about the issue has been heightened because his ex-wife was transitioning to identify as a man.

Women Speak Tasmania (WST) had campaigned against the idea that men can become entitled to the same legal treatment and services by identifying as female.
Mr Wilkie told The Weekend Australian he found the group was ‘discriminatory’ and ‘exclusionary’ and decided to ban them from the office facilities as a result.
‘They were using it but when I learned of their discriminatory views I then stopped them using it,’ Mr Wilkie said.
‘One of the explicit conditions of use of the photocopier is that it shouldn’t be for any material that is exclusionary. They discriminate against transgender women; men who have become women.’
He said now that his ex-wife Kate has become Charlie, he now has an appreciation of transgender issues and was sensitive to discrimination against transgender people.
WST was disappointed by the ban and accused the federal MP of discriminating against them.

They are furious Mr Wilkie is letting a ‘radical trans group’ continue to use the facilities despite their discrimination on female-only services.
WST spokeswoman Isla MacGregor slammed the MP and said it was a ‘direct attack’ on women’s sex-based rights.
‘Australia is in the grip of a psychosis whipped up the by gender lobby that (says) “trans women are women and anybody who opposes that is a hate group”,’ she said.
Source: Daily Mail Australia