Women Speak Tasmania

Category: Women’s Rights

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3

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    By Isla MacGregor Part Three. “I am not a Woman” – Transsexuals and Transgender Women Speak Out Today, the dominant discourse in the transgender rights debate insists that transgender women are ‘women’. It is not uncommon to hear the argument that, because they are women, their biology is female and it is ‘transphobic’ to suggest…

  • Women call for review to sex discrimination laws

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    By Isla MacGregor Women Speak Tasmania is calling for uniform changes to federal and state anti-discrimination laws. All Australian legislatures must urgently address the need for accurate and effective definitions of “sex” and “gender identity” in anti-discrimination laws across Australia. We must develop uniform laws in all Australian jurisdictions to remove confusion and to protect…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2

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    By Isla MacGregor Part Two. The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal from participation, censorship, bullying, threats, intimidation, silencing, stonewalling and expulsion from groups for those who express dissent from the ‘popular’ transgender narrative. The following Tasmanian case studies outline examples of trans rights crusaders and their ideological supporters apparently acting in a…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1

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    By Isla MacGregor Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The…

  • Anti-discrimination boss to face bias claim over sex change plan

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    Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, will find herself on the other side of a sex discrimination claim, before the Australian Human Rights Commission.  Ms Banks has outraged some feminists by recommending changes to state law to allow men who identify as women, but who have not had a sex change, to legally register as female.  An activist…

  • Trans Activists Trumped By Their Own Flawed Policies

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    On the 20th October, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that student politician and Liberal MP staffer Alex Fitton had identified himself as a woman in order to win an executive position in a student election worth $12,000. A similar situation occurred within the University of Tasmania’s own student union and Women’s Collective in early 2015,…

  • Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

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    Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male sex, or the female sex? I’m not talking about people with personality traits that are wholly ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’, because no-one is a walking sex stereotype. I’m talking about physical sex. There are…

  • Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …

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    By Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks and Equal Opportunity Tasmania Policy Advisor Leica Wagner. The allegations made by Tessa Anne and reported in The Australian on Saturday 1st October are significant…

  • Anti-discrimination commissioner bullied me: feminist

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    A leading feminist has made official complaints of bullying and sex discrimination against Tasmania’s female Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, who dismisses the claims.  Tessa Anne, an activist with the radical feminist Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF), has lodged complaints with the state’s Attorney-General and Integrity Commission, alleging Ms Banks “bullied, belittled” and discriminated against her.  Ms Banks…

  • The threat posed to women’s rights …

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    The Women’s Liberation Front Southern Tasmania (WoLF Tas) has written to Tasmanian and Victorian MP’s warning them about the threat posed to women’s rights if proposed legislative changes tabled yesterday in the Victorian Parliament by Premier Daniel Andrews and also similarly proposed in an Options Paper by the Office of Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT), go…