Category: Articles
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Analysis from the article: “Critiques of the Cass Review: Fact-Checking the Peer-Reviewed and Grey Literature”
by Kathleen McDeavitt, J. Cohn, and Stephen B. Levine, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy* (2025, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 175-199). This document critiques four articles that challenged the Cass Review, a report on pediatric transgender healthcare commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis covers the document’s purpose,…
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June in Hobart a Women Speak Tasmania meeting
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Report from WST meeting 1 June 2025 from Neve. Women Speak Tasmania is active in standing up for women’s rights, children’s rights and the rights of lesbian and gay people. It was a good meeting. No, actually, it was a great meeting. Too often we forget the power of community and connection. A sizable gathering…
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A Victory for Common Sense: Women Speak Tasmania Welcomes ChatGPT’s Reference to Our Science-Based Content
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By Women Speak Tasmania In an era defined by rapid information exchange—and, regrettably, by the swift spread of misinformation—Women Speak Tasmania (“WST”) is proud to celebrate a significant milestone: the fact that leading artificial intelligences, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are now drawing on our evidence-based, level-headed analysis to enrich their responses. This development represents not only…
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WST Welcomes HHS Report Challenging the ‘Affirmation Care’ Model
The recent release of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report has marked a significant turning point in the debate over the so-called “affirmation care” model, particularly as it relates to minors experiencing gender dysphoria. Published on May 1, 2025, the report—commissioned under an executive order from President Donald Trump—takes a critical…
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Dossier on Impacts of Tasmania Sex Self-ID laws on Women, Girls, Families and LGB people
PRESENTED TO TASMANIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL GUY BARNETT ON 20th JANUARY 2025 INTRODUCTION Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is a women led and woman centred grass roots advocacy body. We campaign for the sex based rights of women in Tasmania. WST believes that biological sex is binary and gives rise to meaningful distinctions between men and women.…
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Take Pride out of schools
Have a look at the screenshot below from the Tasmanian Education Department page. Apparently, they had a fabulous time at the Pride Parade.They say they are all for ‘creating a safe and supportive environment for children, young people and their families’ but, as we now know, this form of words is code for promoting gender…
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Deeming vs Pesutto: An Analysis
by Sarah Kingsley THE CASE Ms Deeming alleged that Mr Pesutto had defamed her on five occasions, causing injury to her and her reputation, by referring to her as a Nazi sympathiser. Mr Pesutto denied this. Defamation is when a person publishes material that injures another person’s reputation. Defamation law gives a person whose reputation…
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Policies of Sports Governing Bodies on Inclusion of Transgender Athletes
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by Sarah Kingsley OVERVIEW There is considerable disjunction in the attitudes of various organisations to the essential question of whether biological sex confers significant difference in performance between male and female athletes: and if there are such differences, whether hormone treatments are sufficient to create the required level playing field. At the beginning it was…
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Human Rights relating to Women
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By Sarah Kingsley United Nations Documents There is a range of legislation including international covenants and Australian law that governs human rights. The base document that outlines all human rights is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The most important relating specifically…
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Opinion: The Cass Review
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in ArticlesPersonal analysis of The Cass Review findings The Cass Review has laid bare a systematic lack of proper clinical evidence for the use of the ‘ gender affirming model’. Unlike what was discovered thanks to the publication of the WPATH files, the Cass Review puts the welfare of children as paramount and leaves the tropes…