Women Speak Tasmania

Category: Women’s Forum

  • ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forum

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    A feminist group opposed to trans ideology is claiming censorship after the Burnie Library cancelled a forum organised for Thursday to discuss the use of puberty blockers in Tasmania. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) spokesperson Isla MacGregor said the forum was organised to warn parents of the risks of the use of gender medicine. But the…

  • Rally in Hobart – Let Women Speak

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    Let Women Speak Australia – Hobart Australia Women Speak Tasmania and people who came to support the Let Women Speak event in 20223 outside Parliament will never forget the inaction of Tasmania Police Minister Felix Ellis to stop this violence. Or that Tasmanian Greens Cassy O’Connor and Rosalie Woodruff were out front egging the trans-activists.…

  • Conversion Therapy forum staged in Hobart

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    A forum in parliament to discuss a proposed ban on gender identity conversion therapy has heard that Tasmanians should be free to seek therapy, while a Sydney psychologist questioned the wisdom of allowing children to make their own choices in gender transition. The forum, which had been lambasted by Greens leader Cassy O’Connor as a…

  • Robust and respectful free debate is vital

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    Comment by Isla MacGregor Cassy O’Connor’s recent call for Premier Jeremy Rockliff to ban the Free Speech Alliance Australia forum at Parliament House on conversion therapy laws is regrettable. Democracy can only flourish when there is informed, robust and respectful free debate. The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute final report on the issue has not received…

  • Forum: Conversion laws: risks and harms?

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    Free Speech Alliance Australia Forum at Parliament House Hobart Date: 23 November 2022  Time: 6-8.30 The Free Speech Alliance Australia would like to give a warm welcome tonight for everyone attending our first forum, Conversion laws:  risks and harms?  We welcome our guests who will shortly be speaking to you and we would like to…

  • An invitation to the Forum: Conversion Therapy Laws – risks and harms?

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    Dear Member of the Tasmanian Parliament, I am writing to invite you to attend a forum on the contentious changes to Tasmanian law being proposed by the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute on the issue of so-called ‘conversion therapy’. The forum will offer testimony from those who have been negatively impacted by similar laws along with…

  • Transgender flags flown at Hobart Town Hall during Women’s Forum

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    During the Coalition for Biological Reality Forum ‘Gender Identity in Law’ at Hobart Town Hall on 26 February 2022, transgender flags were flown. Numerous questions were asked of Lord Mayor and CEO on council meetings as to whom authorised the flying of the transgender flags. The Lord Mayor and CEO did not provided full and…

  • Quakers cancel booking for women’s forum 

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    The Clerks of the Tasmanian Regional  Meeting (TRM) of the Quakers yesterday cancelled the forum booking for Women Speak Tasmania scheduled for Monday night 18 March.  The forum was to be held in the Friends Meeting House in Argyle Street, New Town. ‘The cancellation appears to be the result of a smear campaign from some…

  • Attack on freedom of speech

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    Two feminists have accused a former anti-discrimination commissioner of trying to stop them from speaking at a human rights forum because of their opposition to transgender reforms. Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor were invited by the Tasmanian branch of the global Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to give a speech at an event…

  • Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21C

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    By Isla MacGregor Amnesty International’s Sex Trade Policy – Rights for Whom? Talk by Isla MacGregor Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania Introduction Thank you, Simone, for speaking of the harms of the global sex trade with such clarity. I hope I can add something to the debate by discussing Amnesty International’s recent policy announcement on what…