Category: Correspondence
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Formal complaint regarding ABC Hobart reporting and the continued characterisation of Women Speak Tasmania as “anti-trans” – Letter to the ABC Ombudsman
Letter to ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron on 10 September 2026 On 10 September 2026, Women Speak Tasmania wrote to ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron concerning ABC News Tasmania’s reporting of WST in the report “Tasmania’s Deputy Premier Guy Barnett potentially at odds with premier over conversion ban”, by state political reporter Josh Duggan, published online and…
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Request for Parliamentary Inquiry into Affirmative Care and Conversion Practices – Email to Tasmania Deputy Premier
Dear Deputy Premier Barnett, Thank you for your reply on 28 August in relation to our correspondence concerning the Tasmanian Greens’ draft Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026. We most certainly agree with the Government that the Greens’ Bill is both fundamentally flawed and extreme. Importantly, as you have inferred, the Greens’ Bill intends to criminalise…
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Proposed all-gender changerooms at Launceston Aquatic Centre: consultation, safety and privacy – Email to Launceston City Council
Email sent to Launceston Mayor and councillors on 24 August 2026 Dear Mayor Garwood and Councillors, I write on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania regarding the proposed redevelopment of the changeroom facilities at the Launceston Aquatic Centre. We recognise that the existing facilities are ageing and support a genuine upgrade. However, the proposed design appears…
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Request for Transparency and Meaningful Consultation on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 – Email to Tasmania MPs
Email to the Members of the Tasmanian Parliament, dated 19 August 2026 Dear Members of the Tasmanian Parliament, As the period for submissions on the Greens’ Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 has now closed, we write to draw your attention to a serious concern regarding transparency. We have been in contact with a number of…
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Request for review of Tasmanian Gender Service clinical pathways following new questions concerning WPATH guidance – Email to Bridget Archer
Email to the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Bridget Archer, dated 16 August 2026 Dear Minister Archer, I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to ask you to reconsider the clinical governance and guidelines underpinning the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS), following new developments concerning the evidentiary basis of guidance issued by the World Professional…
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Use of “androgen deficiency / testicular disorder” PBS indication potentially fraudulent coding for paediatric gender medicine – Email to Senator Chandler
Email sent to Senator Claire Chandler on 18 August 2026 Dear Senator Chandler, I am writing to draw your attention to the recently released United States Department of Health and Human Services report Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”, and to the clear parallel…
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Request for formal review of Year 7–10 Respectful Relationships and Consent Education materials – Email to Jo Palmer
Email sent to Minister for Education Jo Palmer and Attorney-General Guy Barnett on 24 July 2026. Dear Attorney-General and Minister Palmer, We write to formally request that the Tasmanian Government conduct a thorough and transparent review of the content and delivery of Respectful Relationships and Consent Education, and related Health and Physical Education material, currently…
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Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 – Email sent to Members of the Tasmanian Parliament
Email sent to Members of the Tasmanian Parliament on 27 July 2026 Dear Member of Parliament, I am writing on behalf of Women’s Speak Tasmania to provide you with our submission on the consultation draft of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026, which has been released by the Tasmanian Greens. The formal submission has been…
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Request for Review of the Sex Industry Offences Act 2005 and Adoption of the Nordic/Equality Model – Email to AG Guy Barnett
Email sent to Tasmania Attorney General Guy Barnett on 13 July 2026 Dear Attorney General Barnett, Re: Request for Review of the Sex Industry Offences Act 2005 and Adoption of the Nordic Model to Address Violence, Exploitation and Barriers to Exit I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to urge you to initiate a…
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Duty of Care and Safeguards for Women and Girls in Surf Life Saving Tasmania – Letter to the Board of Directors
Letter sent to the Board of Directors of Surf Life Saving Tasmania on 24.05.26 Dear Members of the Board, Re: Duty of Care and Safeguards for Women and Girls in Surf Life Saving Tasmania – Implications of the IRB Training for Women in Lifesaving Program Women Speak Tasmania writes regarding concerns raised by female members…