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Why Texas Senate Bill 1257 should be a model for the nation. In May 2025, Texas passed Senate Bill 1257 (SB 1257) with an 87-58 vote in the House. This law requires insurance providers covering sex-trait modification treatments, such as… Read more: The New Texas Law That Could Change Everything.

By Women Speak Tasmania In an era defined by rapid information exchange—and, regrettably, by the swift spread of misinformation—Women Speak Tasmania (“WST”) is proud to celebrate a significant milestone: the fact that leading artificial intelligences, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are now… Read more: A Victory for Common Sense: Women Speak Tasmania Welcomes ChatGPT’s Reference to Our Science-Based Content

America’s federal health authorities have aligned with Europe’s more cautious position on care for gender-distressed minors On May 1, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its 409-page Gender Dysphoria Report outsourced to independent researchers. What follows is a… Read more: US Health Swears Off Gender Meds for Kids

by Vera Figner Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia Holman – who was at that stage the executive… Read more: ABC Schtum on Strum  

An unexpected conversation with our kids about mentally ill men and a sick society ‘Mum, why was there a man at the pool in a wig and women’s bathers today? Our 8-year-old daughter innocently piped up as we were driving… Read more: ‘Mum, why was there a man at the pool in a wig and women’s bathers today?’

In this raw and unflinching conversation, Victoria G exposes the dark realities of her decade-long immersion in gender ideology and the BDSM scene, culminating in her eventual detransition. Drawing from harrowing firsthand experience, Victoria delivers crucial insights on the dangerous… Read more: Recommended: Beyond Gender podcast -The Dark Side of Gender Ideology, BDSM, and Detransition – Victoria

Anonymous Tasmanian teacher and whistleblower writes about the gender ideology capture in our institutions. While reading her blog we can get a glimpse of the inner working of once trusted organisations such as Family Planning Tasmania, Working It Out and… Read more: Recommend: Justice for Tasmanian women and girls blog

Gender ideologues are now desperate to present themselves as reasonable and moderate. Don’t be fooled. As the Democrats are now forced to contend with the reality of Trump’s landslide win, progressives are scrambling to catch up to a world that no… Read more: There can be no compromise in the trans debate

By Genevieve Gluck The Australian Medical Association (AMA) in Victoria has hired a “fetishistic” trans-identified male to act as a regulatory liaison officer for medical professionals. Brooke Collins, who publicly posts BDSM pornography on social media, wields influence over medical… Read more: Trans-Identified Male Hired by Australian Medical Association Sharing Self-Made BDSM Porn on Social Media

Carl Jung tells us that “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” People who have… Read more: Genspect Conference – Reflections on Lisbon

Eva Kurilova’s excellent article detailing prison data from different countries, including Australia. The justice system has fail vulnerable women by allowing men who identify as women to enter female prisons. Many Western countries are transferring men into women’s prisons and… Read more: Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders

Tasmania’s Liberal government has become the first Australian administration to recommend a national review of public gender services for minors. The island state’s Health Minister, Guy Barnett, who is also Attorney-General, said he had written to his federal counterpart—Australia’s Labor… Read more: Inquiring mind

June 09, 2024 Throughout Australia, schools are creating ‘Queer Clubs’ to push LGBTQA ideas. One school in Victoria has a ‘Queer Club’ for 8-12 year olds. While cult-infected State Departments of Education seemingly don’t care what the majority of parents… Read more: Marking the Role with Phil Dye – Schools, Pride & the end of sanity

Should organisations promoting gender affirming care be able to ignore the recommendations of a Royal Commission aimed at keeping kids safe? A Royal Commission Sadly we know all too well in Australia about the horrors of child sexual abuse and… Read more: Cutting Out Parents put Kids at Risk

Dear Doctor, In Australia, we have a clear template of the standard referral pathway. General practitioners refer to specialists, who refer to sub-specialists. Whenever we feel we need a more specialised opinion than our own we refer the patient to… Read more: An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors

Commercial surrogacy and the global response Many would-be parents, who can offer a child a good life but cannot themselves conceive, experience an aching desire for a child to nurture and care for. Assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) has enabled those… Read more: Sleepwalking through the minefield