Category: News
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‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’
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in NewsAmid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years ago when Elizabeth discovered her 13-year-old daughter was binding her developing breasts with packing tape.…
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Transgender teenager suffered being ‘in the wrong body’
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in NewsTransgender teenager Eli struggles to describe how it feels to be “in the wrong body” because – despite commencing medical transition – he is yet to know how it feels to be in the right body. The 15-year-old began his social transition from female to male about three years ago, now having attending 2½ years…
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Tasmanian Labor pledges to extend hate laws to transphobia and homophobia
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in NewsTasmanian Labor has vowed to extend race hate laws to also cover crimes motivated by transphobia, homophobia and potentially sexism. The move would allow judges and magistrates to impose a tougher sentence on offenders motivated by such hatreds, and has been hailed by activists. Labor justice spokeswoman Ella Haddad told The Australian the new provision…
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Anti-trans feminist group calls for inquiry into protest shutdown
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in NewsThe anti-trans feminist group that attempted to stage a protest outside state parliament last month has written to Premier Jeremy Rockliff to request an inquiry into the circumstances that led to police failing to prevent counter-protesters approaching the protest group and ultimately shouting them down. Let Women Speak organiser Silver Moon said the authorities had…
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
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in NewsPrisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breast removed as a 16 year old on…
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Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images
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A 30-year-old woman going through a gender change and her 23-year-old male partner have each been convicted of possessing child exploitation material. Anna Koizumi Umpisa Simmons appeared in the Burnie Magistrate’s Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child exploitation material. Magistrate Leanne Topfer fined Simmons $500 plus court costs, but…
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Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter
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in NewsThe editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is no longer the editor of The Examiner newspaper, just days after explaining he did not have…
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Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.
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in NewsDoctors treating children at a major public hospital gender clinic have questioned the basis of the ‘gender-affirming’ approach in medicine. Senior physicians at the NSW Children’s Hospital Westmead’s gender clinic have studied the physical and mental health of 79 patients in a rare academic study of the outcomes of children who presented with gender distress…