Category: Media Releases
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Puberty blocker and insurance bans are red flags for Premier Rockcliff on trans health care
Recent bans and restrictions on the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for treatment of gender dysphoria in minors in numerous European countries, along with changes to insurance cover for doctors in Australia, is a wake up call to Premier Rockcliff over trans child health care. Spokeswoman Isla MacGregor said “Women Speak Tasmania…
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Department of Education Instructs Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report “Asleep at the Wheel”
A Department of Education representative has told its schools to ignore an important report that was recently provided to them by Safeguarding Children in Schools. The report, titled Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools, was provided to public schools following growing concerns amongst Tasmanian parents and teachers into…
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NSW Westmead Children’s Hospital Study points to urgent review of Tasmanian Gender Service Guidelines
Premier Jeremy Rockcliff needs to take urgent action on the findings of a study covered in The Australian today including on the front page Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears. The Tasmanian Gender Service has come under pressure from numerous groups in Tasmania in past years over its ‘affirmative only approach’, the…
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Call on Minister for Health to Urgently Review Tasmanian Gender Service Treatment Guidelines
Following recent statements by Dr Marci Bowers and Dr Erica Anderson, two top US gender medical providers and board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), we are calling on the Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff to implement a review of current treatment guidelines used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the…
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Call for Children’s Commissioner to Conduct Inquiry into Tasmanian Gender Service following closure of Tavistock
Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner urging her to establish an independent inquiry into the current “gender affirmation” model of treatment being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the treatment of minors struggling with gender dysphoria. WST wrote to Leanne Mclean to advise her of the recently announced closure of…