Category: Women’s Rights
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Dossier on Impacts of Tasmania Sex Self-ID laws on Women, Girls, Families and LGB people
PRESENTED TO TASMANIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL GUY BARNETT INTRODUCTION Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is a women led and woman centred grass roots advocacy body. We campaign for the sex based rights of women in Tasmania. WST believes that biological sex is binary and gives rise to meaningful distinctions between men and women. We are opposed to…
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Impacts of Trans activism on the Human Rights of Women and Girls
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Below is an interesting paper prepared by the Feminist Legal Clinic detailing the impacts trans activism had on women’ rights, safe spaces, participation on sports and the erasure of the lesbian community
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Human Rights relating to Women
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By Sarah Kingsley United Nations Documents There is a range of legislation including international covenants and Australian law that governs human rights. The base document that outlines all human rights is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The most important relating specifically…
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Self ID in the Misinformation Era
by Dianna T. Kenny PhD Several key medical journals (e.g., JAMA) have identified the profound harms caused by medical and health misinformation. They assert that health misinformation on social media disproportionately harms female adolescents, racial and ethnic minority youth, LGBQT+ youth, and other marginalized groups. The recent conference of the American Psychological Association in Seattle,…
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Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans Woman
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The woman behind a female-only app says she will appeal Federal Court decision ruling sex is ‘changeable.’ Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover has launched an appeal against a Federal Court decision ruling sex is “changeable.” The appeal resulted from Grover banning trans woman Roxanne Tickle from the female-only app and a subsequent successful…
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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Open letter to Board of Directors Equality Australia
From: An Alliance of Australian lesbian, women’s and children’s rights organisations Dear Directors of the Board of Equality Australia, We the undersigned represent a broad alliance of lesbian and women’s rights organisations in Australia who have come together to invite Equality Australia to participate in a mediated round table discussion over the substantive issues that…
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Women’s rights groups call on Tasmania government to conduct inquiry
Standing for Women, Tasmania, in collaboration with an alliance of women’s, lesbians’, and children’s human rights groups, has written to the Premier calling on his government to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into events leading up to and on the day of the Let Women Speak event held on Tuesday 21 March 2023, on Parliament House…
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A dark day for women’s free speech and right to lawful and peaceful assembly in Tasmania
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Tasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House in Hobart in March 2023 In Tasmania we like to regard our state as a peaceful and accepting place where our people can safely and freely discuss the important issues of the day. But on Tuesday 21st, March 2023 we found to our dismay…
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Free Speech Alliance Australia
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Freedom of speech for women is under dire threat in Australia. Free Speech Alliance Australia has produced this poster and list of women in Australia from across the political spectrum who have been sacked, banned, no-platformed, expelled, threatened with violence including rape, attacked and/or vilified for speaking out about their views on women’s sex-based rights.…