Category: Media Releases
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Candidates Back Inquiries into Tasmanian Gender Service and Sex Self ID laws
Women Speak Tasmania are pleased to announce that in response to a questionnaire (see below) sent to all candidates the following 16 Independent and Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers Party of Tasmania (SFFPT) candidates have backed the urgent establishment of Parliamentary Inquiries into the Tasmanian Gender Service and Sex Self ID Laws: Ind Louise Elliot, Phillip…
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Fix Conversion Laws Before Banning Conversion Practices
Safeguarding Children in Schools Australia and Women Speak Tasmania will be calling on the new Government once elected, to urgently review existing conversion laws before debating any anti conversion Bill put before parliament. Today we have released our Submission to the draft Justice Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024. In principle, we support laws that prevent…
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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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Attorney General Elise Archer Must Intervene on Parole Granted to Tobias Pick
Women Speak Tasmania are appalled at the low sentence and recent granting of parole to Tobias Pick for the killing of prostituted woman Jingai Zhang in 2020. “Not only was the sentence of five years manifestly inadequate but to release Pick after only two and half years sends an appalling message to the community about…
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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…