Category: Violence Against Women
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Barnett Rejects Trans Jail ‘Ban’
Tasmanian Attorney-General Guy Barnett has rejected claims the government had “banned” transgender inmates from serving time in women’s prisons, saying his recent decision to deny a convicted child abuser’s request to be housed with females was consistent with current policies. After Equality Tasmania expressed concern about the wider ramifications of Mr. Barnett’s ruling – which…
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Trans ban in Tasmanian jails after horrific rape of three-year-old
A father who raped his own three-year-old daughter has demanded to be placed in a women’s prison in Tasmania, prompting the state government to declare it has banned trans-identifying male prisoners from women’s prisons. The pedophile, described by Tasmanian prison sources as “the worst of the worst”, set up a camera to record himself engaging…
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Fed Govt silent amid fears over release of ‘high-risk’ foreign-born rapist
Federal Immigration Minister Tony Burke has failed to comment on a petition seeking the deportation of a Sudanese-born man jailed for raping a 76-year-old woman a decade ago. Christo Brown was sentenced in 2018 to eight years’ imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of breaking into the elderly woman’s Launceston home at night and…
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Educator fired over alleged grooming behaviour hired at public primary school
An educator employed at a private school in Northern Tasmania was fired after an internal investigation deemed his behaviour posed a “serious risk of grooming”. However, he has since been hired at a public primary school in Launceston. The educator’s dismissal letter, viewed by The Examiner, summarised the outcome of the school’s investigation and concluded…
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LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage mural
A mural depicting a woman in bondage painted by a Los Angeles-based artist in Fitzroy has sparked hundreds of people to flood the City of Yarra’s inbox with complaints. A mural depicting a woman in bondage gagged and bound with ropes that was painted on a wall in Fitzroy earlier this month has sparked hundreds…
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Rape is rape regardless of sexual orientation, non-binary offender told
A North-West offender has been jailed for rape with the judge telling them that unconsensual sex was a crime regardless of the form in which it was committed. The offender, who cannot be named, was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Burnie on Tuesday. The offender identifies as non-binary and their victim identifies the same…
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More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
Violent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than…
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Sex rights group LGB Tasmania has called for a boycott of Target
Sex rights group LGB Tasmania is to stage a protest outside Launceston Target on Saturday, calling for a boycott of the store until it removes copies of controversial children’s book Welcome to Sex, by Yumi Stynes and Dr Melissa Kang. LGB Tasmania spokesperson Jessica Hoyle said the book, which is being sold by Target, “sends…
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Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images
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…