Category: Gender Debate and Censorship
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Andrew Wilkie Office Ban Spurs Transgender Row
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has banned a women’s group from office facilities made available to community organisations because of its “exclusionary” views on transgender issues. The federal member for Clark allows community groups to use his taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. Until recently this included feminist group Women Speak Tasmania. WST has in recent years…
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New power balance: rethink of transgender law ‘highly likely’
A bid to amend or repeal Tasmania’s controversial transgender laws is “highly likely” following a shift in the balance of power in the state’s lower house. The nation-first changes passed in April by Labor and the Greens, with support from Speaker Sue Hickey, allow sex-free birth certificates, gender change by affirmation, and extend hate speech…
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MP whose ex-wife is now a man bans women’s group from using an office because it holds ‘trans-exclusionary’ views
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…
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State Government wants time to consider ‘dog’s breakfast’ Tasmania gender law
HISTORIC changes to transgender laws have been passed by the Tasmanian parliament after Liberal Speaker Sue Hickey repeatedly crossed the floor to support Labor and the Greens. The laws mean the recording of a child’s gender on their birth certificate will be optional, that people over 16 will be able to change their gender by…
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Attack on Freedom of Speech
Two feminists have accused a former anti-discrimination commissioner of trying to stop them from speaking at a human rights forum because of their opposition to transgender reforms. Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor were invited by the Tasmanian branch of the global Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to give a speech at an event…
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Greens Label Anti-Transgender Stickers Hateful
The debate over gender markers on birth certificates has ramped up with anti-transgender stickers described as “hateful and hurtful” appearing throughout Hobart. The stickers are shaped like penises and carry the phrase “Women don’t have penises” Transforming Tasmania spokeswoman Martine Delaney said it was clear the stickers had been distributed by groups looking to deny…
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Anti-Discrimination Boss to Face Bias Claim over Sex Change Plan
Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, will find herself on the other side of a sex discrimination claim, before the Australian Human Rights Commission. Ms Banks has outraged some feminists by recommending changes to state law to allow men who identify as women, but who have not had a sex change, to legally register as female. An activist…
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Women, Men who Identify as Women, Feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male sex, or the female sex? I’m not talking about people with personality traits that are wholly ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’, because no-one is a walking sex stereotype. I’m talking about physical sex. There are…