Category: Media Releases
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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…
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Call for New Guidelines for Gender Medicine
WPATH WHISTLEBLOWERS SPEAK OUT 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 have today contacted the office of federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff and urged them to…
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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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Duncan Maskell Must Condemn Today’s Anti-Feminist Rally at Melbourne University
Women Speak Tasmania are calling on the University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Duncan Maskell to publicly condemn today’s rally opposing academic freedom and targeting feminist academic and lecturer in political philosophy Holly Lawford Smith. Spokesperson Isla MacGregor said ‘The VC must uphold the University of Melbourne’s policy on academic freedom which states: ‘A core value…
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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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Health Minister Sarah Courtney Must Review Use of Puberty Blockers
Women Speak Tasmania today contacted the Health Minister Sarah Courtney’s office to seek an urgent review of the treatment guidelines used by the Tasmanian Gender Service following from last week’s UK High Court decision in the case of Keira Bell and Mrs A. “The decision determined that experimental treatments for children and young people with…