FEMINISTS opposed to proposed laws that would allow parents to choose whether their child’s sex was displayed on their birth certificate yesterday called for more community consultation before the Tasmanian Upper House votes on the Bill.
The Legislative Council is expected to vote on legislation that would change laws in favour of transgender Tasmanians when parliament resumes in March.
The legislation would in part make it easier for people to legally change their gender and make sex markers on birth certificates optional.
Women Speak Tasmania member Joanna Pinkiewicz said her group was handing out brochures on the changes at Salamanca yesterday because they wanted open debate on the issue.
“We want to preserve women’s rights, we want to respect transgender rights as well, but we want to have women’s spaces preserved and the right to refuse male bodies in our spaces,” Ms Pinkiewicz said.
MLCs heard from various groups on the proposed laws at the end of last year.
Source: The Mercury printed edition 10 Feb 2019