Category: Articles
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Transforming Tasmania cries foul over poll results
By Women Speak Tasmania The EMRS poll results released yesterday indicate the majority of Tasmanians do not support changes to the state’s birth registration process proposed by Labor and the Greens. The changes were passed as amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 by our parliament’s Lower House in November last…
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An open letter to Hobart City Council aldermen
By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor Women Speak Tasmania is writing to you regarding the Salamanca Market Facebook posting on Sunday 10 February which stated, among other things, that … ‘The City of Hobart have been made aware of a group that were distributing anti-transgender materials yesterday at the Salamanca Market.’ We reject as false…
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Children’s Commissioner’s advice to Legislative Council exposes lack of consultation on transgender reforms
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By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania The Tasmanian Commissioner for Children and Young People, Leanne McLean, in a recent email to the Legislative Council on changes to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018, stated she has not been ‘briefed or asked to comment on the Government Bill or the…
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Investigation into former Anti-discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks
By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Women Speak Tasmania is disappointed that Anti-discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt has referred our complaint against former Anti-discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks to the Ombudsman for investigation. We submitted our complaint against Robin Banks when our organisation was no-platformed last year at a public forum in Human…
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Cassy O’Connor and Rebecca White must explain how sex self-ID will impact women’s human rights?
By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Campaign group Women Speak Tasmania is calling on Greens’ leader Cassy O’Connor and Opposition leader Rebecca White to clarify how sex self-ID will impact the human rights of women and girls. Labor and the Greens bulldozed amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act,…
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Lifting the lid on the fundamentalist trans rights lobby’s bag of dirty tryx in Tasmania
By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor Women Speak Tasmania Human Rights Week 12 December 2018 Isla MacGregor writes … ‘If one section of our community want to change the definition of what it is to be a woman, then women rightly have a major stake in this discussion, not only on their own behalf but…
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Human rights event cancelled due to trans lobby’s bullying
By Women Speak Tasmania ‘We are in a new era of witch burning, except that today, the fire is that of media and propaganda, with trans activists and their supporters suppressing any information that contradicts their goals and silencing their critics through oppressive tactics. Some of our contributors have been fired from teaching positions at…
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Robin Banks Attempts to No-Platform Women Speak Tasmania
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Women Speak Tasmania is scheduled to speak at a Human Rights Week event for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) on 12 December next. On 30 November, former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, emailed WILPF with the following … Ms Banks’ statements clearly amount to vilification of the Women Speak Tasmania speakers, and…
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Transforming Tasmania and Rodney Croome Spreading ‘Fake News’
On 24 November, Transforming Tasmania and Rodney Croome congratulated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on the passage of ‘laws removing discrimination against transgender, gender diverse and intersex people’ – see https://www.facebook.com/rodney.croome. Apparently, this legislative miracle happened on Friday 23 November, according to Transforming Tasmania spokesperson, Roen Meijers – see https://ymlp.com/zEfeKv?fbclid=IwAR3HGBZr4LTz26dKPNeDj4Q6V15YyL-P0VpkdKSywpSdelV0_pdvoALLWXs. This is ‘fake news’. The Northern Territory…