Women Speak Tasmania

Category: Media Releases

  • Call for Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to Rewrite Conversion Practices Issue Paper

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    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Institute requesting that the recently released Issues Paper ‘Conversion Practices: Law Reform Options for Tasmania’ be withdrawn and revised. The decision yesterday in the UK High Court case of Keira Bell, Sue Evans and Mrs A regarding use of puberty…

  • Women Back Repeal of Gender Laws

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    Women Speak Tasmania congratulate the Liberal State Conference decision to repeal the state’s gender reforms. “The Tasmanian gender reforms have most definitely had adverse consequences for girls and women in Tasmania.” “Girls and women’s freedom of speech and their right to assert that sex-based rights must be protected, has been severely impacted”. “Women Speak Tasmania…

  • No Support for Mark Latham’s Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2020

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    On Wendesday 5th of August Mark Latham (NSW MP) has introduced amendments to the Education Legistlation Bill. As critics of the transgender ideology and trans activism, WST would like to argue for a non-dogmatic position in Australian public education. We do not however support Mark Latham’s approach of prohibition on discussion of gender non-conformity and…

  • Cr Holly Ewin had NO Evidence to Answer

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    Hobart City Councillor Holly Ewin failed to answer the Question Without Notice from Isla MacGregor from Women Speak Tasmania at last months Council Meeting and again in shorter form at last nights Council meeting. After providing a response to the question last month in the form of a three page tirade about gender ideology, Cr…

  • Recognising Service to Free Speech

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    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…

  • Push on Politicians to Back Federal Child Trans Health Inquiry 

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    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…

  • Federal Government Review of Trans Medicine for Children and Adolescents: A Welcome Sign

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    Women Speak Tasmania has welcomed the national inquiry announced last Friday by Greg Hunt, Federal Minister for Health, into the ethics of medical and surgical interventions offered to children and adolescents presenting at gender clinics and services. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘Women Speak Tasmania fully endorses the submissions made to the Royal Australasian College of…

  • Code of Conduct Complaint against Councillor Holly Ewin

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    On Monday this week, Women Speak Tasmania lodged a Code of Conduct complaint with Hobart City Council against Councillor Holly Ewin. ‘We understand the Hobart City Council Code of Conduct requires Councillors to treat all people with respect, including members of the public and fellow Councillors’, said Women Speak Tasmania spokesperson, Bronwyn Williams. ‘Councillor Ewin…

  • TGD Guidelines in Sport – Senator Colbeck’s Support Questioned

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    Earlier this month, the Australian Human Rights Commission released its ‘Guidelines for Inclusion of Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Sport’. The guidelines are the result of a collaboration between the AHRC, Sport Australia and the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS) in consultation with governments, player associations, legal advisers and athletes. Today,…

  • Councillor Holly Ewin Encouraging ‘Noisy’ Protest Outside HCC Meeting

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    This evening, Hobart City Council will meet to discuss, among other things, the following motion – That: 1. Trans and Gender diverse posters not be displayed on a permanent basis, however be included on an annual program of display in the City’s public toilets. 2. The development and design of the posters to be in…