Category: Media Releases
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Protest in Support of Tasmanian Parliamentary Inquiry into Medical and Surgical Intervention for Children with Gender Dysphoria.
Members of Women Speak Tasmania are protesting today at 12.45 pm outside the Tasmanian Gender Services premises at 60 Collins Street. The protest is part of an international movement to draw attention to the unethical medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria. WST, in partnership with International Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), will be protesting with…
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Calls for Review of Tasmania’s Sex Industry Laws after Prostituted Woman Murderer in Launceston
The murder of prostituted woman, Jingai Zhang, in Launceston on Boxing Day 2020 should be a wake-up call for those regulating the sex industry in Tasmania. ‘We have been reliably informed that activities in the sexual services business in which Jingai Zhang was engaged were in contravention of the Tasmanian Sex Industry Offences Act 2005’,…
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Tasmanian Awards for Disservice to Free Speech
On International Human Rights Day 2020, Women Speak Tasmania presents the first of our: TASMANIAN AWARDS FOR DISSERVICE TO FREE SPEECH. Our awards go to: * UTAS Tasmanian Law Reform Institute – for refusing to allow Women Speak Tasmania to speak at a forum on gender reforms, and failing to consult with women’s groups (like…
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Call for Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to Rewrite Conversion Practices Issue Paper
Women Speak Tasmania have today contacted Dr Brendan Gogarty, Director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute requesting that the recently released Issues Paper ‘Conversion Practices: Law Reform Options for Tasmania’ be withdrawn and revised. https://www.utas.edu.au/law-reform/news-and-events/tlri-news/conversion-practices The decision yesterday in the UK High Court case of Keira Bell, Sue Evans and Mrs A regarding use of…
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Recognising Service to Free Speech
For International Human Rights Day this year Women Speak Tasmania are recognising two outstanding Tasmanians for their contribution to Freedom of Speech. Freedom of speech underpins all human rights. “On International Human Rights Day we want to recognise the contribution of Anne Warburton and Alderman Jeff Briscoe who have defended women’s rights to express…
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Push on Politicians to Back Federal Child Trans Health Inquiry
Women Speak Tasmania has recently backed calls for a federal parliamentary inquiry into the models of care, including medical and surgical interventions, currently being offered to children and young people presenting at gender services in Australia. The ‘gender affirming’ approach adopted by such as the Gender Clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for Children has…
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Sue Hickey’s Vote Fails Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
Women Speak Tasmania was disappointed to see mandatory sentencing for serious child sexual assaults voted down last week when Liberal Speaker, Sue Hickey, used her casting vote to oppose the Sentencing Amendment (Mandatory Sentencing for Serious Sexual Offences Against Children) Bill 2018. ‘We understand the Government has been guided by the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council’s…
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Labor, the Greens and Sue Hickey Pass ‘Seriously Flawed’ Laws
Labor, the Greens and Liberal Speaker, Sue Hickey, failed to heed the advice of legal and academic experts, including the Solicitor-General and former Tasmanian Bar Association President, Chris Gunson, and today passed radical amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act and the Anti-Discrimination Act. Women Speak Tasmania Spokesperson, Bronwyn Williams, said – ‘Many…