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- The world v Trent Aitken: Hundreds across the globe take on boy from BurnieMore than 700 people, from all corners of the globe, have called for a controversial Burnie councillor to resign. The petition, which garnered 749 signatures, called Councillor Trent Aitken “to resign his position” effective immediately upon the tabling of the petition. It… Read more: The world v Trent Aitken: Hundreds across the globe take on boy from Burnie
- Retired judge Steven Strickland says key puberty blocker case ‘may have been different’ in light of new evidenceA judge who helped decide a landmark case giving parents – not courts – the authority to approve puberty blockers for their children says the outcome might have been different if today’s medical evidence had been available. A judge who… Read more: Retired judge Steven Strickland says key puberty blocker case ‘may have been different’ in light of new evidence
- Controversial Liberal candidate Julie Sladden should be dismissed, Labor saysA Liberal candidate for the seat of Bass should have her party membership revoked, according to a Labor MLC A controversial Liberal candidate has been accused of previously campaigning against her own party, which Labor claims should be grounds for… Read more: Controversial Liberal candidate Julie Sladden should be dismissed, Labor says
- Australian clinicians call for halt of gender affirming interventionsOver 100 Australian clinicians have signed the letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions. Read below: OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN HEALTH BODIES REGARDING GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS As clinicians, we call on our professional bodies and regulatory authorities to urgently… Read more: Australian clinicians call for halt of gender affirming interventions
- Trinity Grammar sparks outrage after lewd video of invited Pride speaker Basem Kerbage emergesParents at one of Melbourne’s top private schools have been left outraged after a Palestinian Pride activist with a controversial social media presence was invited to speak to students. A Palestinian Pride activist with a controversial social media presence has… Read more: Trinity Grammar sparks outrage after lewd video of invited Pride speaker Basem Kerbage emerges
- Children’s hospital backs Michelle Telfer after judge’s criticismThe Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has championed its chief of medicine Michelle Telfer after a judge found she gave misleading evidence in support of a mother who wanted her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne… Read more: Children’s hospital backs Michelle Telfer after judge’s criticism
- Doctor’s advocacy trumped duty to objectivity in courtThe public should know why gender-affirming care became the dominant practice in Australia without good quality evidence to support it. Medicalised gender change for distressed minors, driven by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, is experimental treatment. Since 2019, jurisdictions as… Read more: Doctor’s advocacy trumped duty to objectivity in court
- Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidenceJudge Andrew Strum has criticised the evidence of gender medicine expert Dr Michelle Telfer and allowed publication of her name and of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne following a landmark case. Australia’s foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author… Read more: Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidence
- Medical report leaked that ‘proves Imane Khelif is biological male’Sex-test results published online which debunk IOC’s stance on controversial Olympic champion Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically… Read more: Medical report leaked that ‘proves Imane Khelif is biological male’
- Witch ‘thrown out by Druids after being accused of transphobia’Angela Howard claims her membership was revoked after she supported the exclusion of trans women from single-sex spaces A witch has claimed she was thrown off a Druid training course amid allegations that she was “transphobic” in a row over… Read more: Witch ‘thrown out by Druids after being accused of transphobia’
- Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns policeSpecial rapporteur concerned third of British forces still take into account self-identified gender in violence cases against females Police forces that allow criminals to pick their own gender are the “biggest barrier to ending violence against women and girls”, a United Nations report… Read more: Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns police
- Two transgender netball players banned from playing in Riddell District Netball Football LeagueTwo transgender netball players have been banned from competing in a major community Melbourne netball league, the decision coming after a video emerged of a smaller female opponent being knocked over at a weekend match. Two transgender players have been… Read more: Two transgender netball players banned from playing in Riddell District Netball Football League
- I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friendsAs a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position I am a human rights lawyer and professor at King’s College London. Until 2018, I supported all the demands… Read more: I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends
- Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormonesThe evidence that shifted the Government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here. It emerged last week that the health secretary was “actively reviewing” whether to restrict or ban the prescription of cross-sex hormones to children who… Read more: Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
- If biological truth is transphobic, then we’ve lost our mindsThe case of Jayney Sutherley, who was acquitted for threatening or abusive behaviour for misgendering a fellow prisoner, is proof that a reckoning is coming Under Section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010, a person may… Read more: If biological truth is transphobic, then we’ve lost our minds
- One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is probing whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female playersNetball Victoria has engaged an independent expert to review possible on-court safety risks after a club in Melbourne’s outer north said it was worried about the size and strength of transgender players. One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is… Read more: One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is probing whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female players
- As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knifeA woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent. A young woman who thought for years she was non-binary or a transgender man is suing two doctors and Monash Health… Read more: As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife
- Does the gender-affirming model provide trans youth the healthcare they need? There are good reasons to think it doesn’tOver the last 10 to 15 years, the number of children and adolescents seeking medical help for gender dysphoria has rapidly increased in Australia. In the context of uncertainty over how to respond to this phenomenon, the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines… Read more: Does the gender-affirming model provide trans youth the healthcare they need? There are good reasons to think it doesn’t
- Uproar over junior transgender athlete’s recordsWhat should have been a happy, uncontroversial sports day at a Catholic school has become a flashpoint for the participation of transgender youths in girls’ sports and the right of religious schools to design their own policies. The issue erupted… Read more: Uproar over junior transgender athlete’s records
- UK activist Susan Smith says Aussie women are treated as ‘second-class citizens’British activist Susan Smith, who successfully won a UK court case which determined a woman is someone born biologically female, says it is ‘appalling’ how women are treated in Australia. Exclusive: A British activist who successfully brought a UK court case… Read more: UK activist Susan Smith says Aussie women are treated as ‘second-class citizens’
- John Pesutto ordered to pay $2.3m legal bill in Moira Deeming defamation caseFormer Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has been hit with a $2.3m legal bill in the fallout from his defamation battle with Moira Deeming. Ms Deeming sued Mr Pesutto for defamation and won her Federal Court case in December last… Read more: John Pesutto ordered to pay $2.3m legal bill in Moira Deeming defamation case
- The New Texas Law That Could Change Everything.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.
- ‘It’s not fair’: Transgender girl smashes records at school sports dayParents at a private Catholic school have voiced “anger” after a transgender student broke a number of records competing against girls at a recent sports day. Parents at a private Catholic school in South Australia have voiced “anger” and “disappointment”… Read more: ‘It’s not fair’: Transgender girl smashes records at school sports day
- LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage muralA 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… Read more: LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage mural
- Where the Trump administration has science on its side A government report evaluates gender therapy and medical care for children BACK IN JANUARY Donald Trump signed executive order 14187, entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”. He instructed federally run insurance programmes to exclude coverage of treatment related to… Read more: Where the Trump administration has science on its side
- Lost in TransitionGender affirming care to treat children with dysphoria is discredited overseas yet routine here. Trans, by its nature, ia a world where appearances differ from reality. After years of the activist slogan that “trans women are women”, Britain’s highest court… Read more: Lost in Transition
- Councillor crackdown: Laws to remove problematic members to be introducedLocal Government Minister Kerry Vincent says draft legislation to crack down on councillor misconduct, which includes their removal by an independent tribunal, will soon be released to the public. There has been debate over a number of years that the… Read more: Councillor crackdown: Laws to remove problematic members to be introduced
- Why the trans debacle mattersI first stuck my neck out on ‘trans’ nearly a decade ago, when a societal obsession with pretending to change sex was already going great guns. I’d been disturbed by this unhinged cultural preoccupation ever since documentaries about little boys… Read more: Why the trans debacle matters
- Violent clashes in Melbourne after protesters descend on women’s rights rallyOut-of-control violence has marred busy CBD streets after protesters, who were left unaccompanied by police, clashed with passersby following earlier skirmishes with law enforcement in which four officers were injured. Earlier on Saturday, trans-rights activists and police clashed as protesters… Read more: Violent clashes in Melbourne after protesters descend on women’s rights rally
- Councillor responds over gender backlashSeveral Burnie City councillors are considering lodging Code of Conduct complaints against outspoken and unapologetic fellow councillor Trent Aitken in the wake of his recent public comments attracting trans people But the “Boy from Burnie” says he has “never felt… Read more: Councillor responds over gender backlash
- Trans activists deface statue of feminist hero Millicent FawcettThousands protest in London over Supreme Court’s ruling on definition of a woman Trans rights activists defaced a statue of Millicent Fawcett during a protest against the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman. The Parliament Square statue of the suffragist,… Read more: Trans activists deface statue of feminist hero Millicent Fawcett
- Trans doctors can hide biological sex despite Supreme Court rulingGeneral Medical Council pressing ahead with its new policy of making it voluntary for medics to record any data on their gender or sex Transgender doctors will be able to hide their biological sex from the public despite the Supreme… Read more: Trans doctors can hide biological sex despite Supreme Court ruling
- Why did we need a court of law to tell us what a woman is?No man, whether it’s a 6’5” bloke called Dave or a genderfluid lad who’s taken estrogen, will be legally treated as a woman in the UK. I’m glad this ruling has been made, but I’m bemused – and kind of… Read more: Why did we need a court of law to tell us what a woman is?
- U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality ActBritain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists. The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal… Read more: U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act
- Is this the beginning of the end for puberty blockers?Is this the beginning of the end in Australia for the experiment of using puberty blockers for gender-incongruent children? It began as a compassionate solution to the difficulties that trans people had in being accepted as the sex with which… Read more: Is this the beginning of the end for puberty blockers?
- Controversial group sets sight on another venue in quest to hold forumWomen Speak Tasmania (WST) has set its sights on the Devonport RSL to hold a forum previously cancelled at two other locations on the Coast. The rescheduled forum garnered strong comments from prominent LGBTQIA+ rights activist Rodney Croome. “Women’s Speak Tasmania… Read more: Controversial group sets sight on another venue in quest to hold forum
- Top children’s hospital silent on judge’s criticism of gender care guidelinesThe Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has refused to respond to a Family Court judge’s criticism of its care standards for children presenting with gender concerns. One of the nation’s top children’s hospitals has refused to publicly defend its own treatment… Read more: Top children’s hospital silent on judge’s criticism of gender care guidelines
- Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinicOne of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers. One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts… Read more: Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinic
- ‘Thugs veto’: Controversial group claims it was shafted over NW eventsA controversial group dubbed anti-trans by many has come out swinging over what they call the cancellation of public forums at two North-West venues. However, one venue operator denied the group’s claim for cancellation, while the other said its booking… Read more: ‘Thugs veto’: Controversial group claims it was shafted over NW events
- Australian Athletics boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes Australian Athletics president Jane Flemming has backed an international move to “protect the female category” in the sport, by requiring DNA tests of competing athletes. Flemming echoed the sentiments of World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe, who this week announced moves… Read more: Australian Athletics boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes
- Social contagion aspect of transgender movement needs more attentionThe trans movement has a lot in common with other movements of mass social contagion. Unfortunately, the medical profession is not immune. According to some enthralled commentators, the ascension of Donald Trump to the US presidency has heralded the death of… Read more: Social contagion aspect of transgender movement needs more attention
- Greens fight over trans rights and free speechAn internal fight over trans rights and free speech has seen the Greens suspend one of its founders, in a process that took almost two years and could not be appealed Bob Brown calls Drew Hutton a hero and an… Read more: Greens fight over trans rights and free speech
- Call for federal inquiry into kids gender therapyMore than 100 doctors, academics, lawyers, politicians and so-called ‘detransitioners’ are calling for the Albanese government to pause the use of puberty blockers for children in Australia. More than 100 doctors, academics, lawyers, politicians and so-called “detransitioners” are calling for… Read more: Call for federal inquiry into kids gender therapy
- Queensland Government pauses access to puberty blockersQueensland has put a temporary hold on children accessing puberty blockers after concerns were raised over a young child accessing the service. Health minister Tim Nicholls confirmed an independent review into puberty blockers will be carried out after a 12-year-old… Read more: Queensland Government pauses access to puberty blockers
- ‘Rogue’ gender clinics giving Qld kids puberty blockers without parental consentExplosive claims that rogue gender services in north Queensland are giving kids as young as 12 puberty blockers, without consent or medical support, have sparked an independent inquiry. Queensland children as young as 12 have been prescribed puberty blockers and… Read more: ‘Rogue’ gender clinics giving Qld kids puberty blockers without parental consent
- A group of women wanted to ban trans people from their public meet-ups… their two-year battle has come to a ‘devastating’ endA lesbian group has lost its battle to ban transgender and bisexual women from its public events following a two-year legal battle. Lesbian Action Group wanted a five-year exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act and made an application to the Australian Human… Read more: A group of women wanted to ban trans people from their public meet-ups… their two-year battle has come to a ‘devastating’ end
- Barnett meets with group seeking end to optional sex on certificates lawAttorney-General Guy Barnett has met with a feminist group that is calling for the repeal of the state’s sex self-ID legislation. Parliament passed the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2019, making the listing of babies’ gender optional on… Read more: Barnett meets with group seeking end to optional sex on certificates law
- Gender ideology has been comprehensively beaten: three cheers for TerfsIt was in a stuffy room in the House of Lords in 2019 when the power of the trans lobby hit me for the first time. Campaigners Kellie-Jay and Venice Allan had pulled together lawyers, journalists, politicians, and NHS whistle-blowers… Read more: Gender ideology has been comprehensively beaten: three cheers for Terfs
- United Kingdom’s ban on puberty blockers for children is not a culture war but a safety matterYet again, Australia’s health ministers and officials have been warned about puberty blockers, the drugs given to minors who reject their birth sex and want the “wrong puberty” to be chemically suppressed. The typical response from our gender medicine lobby,… Read more: United Kingdom’s ban on puberty blockers for children is not a culture war but a safety matter
- ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaignThe Albanese government has given a seven-figure contract to a LGBTQ group which produced a cancer campaign targeting women, using non-gendered language such as “people with a cervix”. The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby… Read more: ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaign
- ‘Pedophile’ TikTok star Rachel Queen Burton faces sentencing submissions in District CourtA TikTok influencer who amassed a large following sharing her experiences as a trans woman has faced a sentencing hearing. A TikTok star who abused two children told her mother she’s still “the queen” and planned to become famous once… Read more: ‘Pedophile’ TikTok star Rachel Queen Burton faces sentencing submissions in District Court
- U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor SaysThe leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender… Read more: U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
- Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans WomanThe 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… Read more: Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans Woman
- Athletes not born female shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s sport, UN human rights expert saysOnly athletes who were female at birth should be allowed to compete in women’s sport, a United Nations-appointed human rights expert will tell the UN General Assembly next week. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and… Read more: Athletes not born female shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s sport, UN human rights expert says
- Consequences of Tickle v GiggleA federal court judge’s ruling that “sex is changeable” is part of an all out assault on the rights of females – an outcome ironically pushed and celebrated by women themselves, writes Rocco Loiacono Last week transgender person Roxanne Tickle… Read more: Consequences of Tickle v Giggle
- Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only appA transgender woman who sued a women-only social media app for alleged gender discrimination has been awarded $10,000 plus costs after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against in a landmark decision that tested the meaning and scope… Read more: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only app
- Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not genderOpinion piece by Doriane Lambelet Coleman Two dozen U.S. boys under 17 swim faster than Katie Ledecky in her best event. After an ugly controversy erupted at the Paris Olympics, the critical question in elite women’s sport still needs an… Read more: Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender
- Puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise – reviewThere is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found. Professor Louis Appleby was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to examine the data following claims made… Read more: Puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise – review
- Tasmania Hobart Council apology to Louise ElliotCity of Hobart’s chief executive officer has found Hobart councillor Louise Elliot was discriminated against, lied to, and unfairly treated after she was blocked from booking a venue because of her political beliefs. In September last year, Cr Elliot attempted… Read more: Tasmania Hobart Council apology to Louise Elliot
- Tasmanian minister ‘prefers’ national inquiry into child gender clinicsA senior state cabinet member has written to the federal government asking for it to consider staging a national review into public medical services for children experiencing gender dysphoria. Health Minister Guy Barnett confirmed he wrote to his federal counterpart,… Read more: Tasmanian minister ‘prefers’ national inquiry into child gender clinics
- Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20sStudy found many had bladder and bowel symptoms they would expect to see in a woman after the menopause Transgender men are suffering from “postmenopausal” problems like incontinence in their 20s because of taking testosterone, a study has revealed. Experts… Read more: Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20s
- Tasmanian Ombudsman investigates Hobart City CouncilTasmania’s Ombudsman has launched an investigation into claims Hobart City Council and Lord Mayor breached privacy laws by tipping off transgender activists about a proposed “women’s rights” event. After a preliminary assessment, the Ombudsman has appointed a senior investigator to… Read more: Tasmanian Ombudsman investigates Hobart City Council
- Whistleblower exposes Hobart City Council transgender rights cover-upEmails showing a forum critical of transgender rights was “blocked” by Hobart City Council staff were withheld from release under right to information, in conduct the council concedes may be criminal. Two senior staff whose emails were caught up in… Read more: Whistleblower exposes Hobart City Council transgender rights cover-up
- Landmark British report offers insights for Tasmania’s transgender debateA tectonic shift is taking place overseas in the debate over how to treat children that question their gender identity, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned in Tasmania. The UK government commissioned a review into the treatment… Read more: Landmark British report offers insights for Tasmania’s transgender debate
- Anthony Albanese under pressure to probe puberty blocker harmsAnthony Albanese is being urged to replicate a landmark British review into interventionist medical treatments that enable young children to change gender, amid increasing concern that puberty blockers may cause serious harm. The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists has urged the… Read more: Anthony Albanese under pressure to probe puberty blocker harms
- Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus testFree speech is a keystone right – all other rights flow from it, from freedom of association, religion, and even the right to a fair trial. It has played a vital part in our Tasmanian democracy these past hundred years.… Read more: Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test
- Women’s team with five trans players dominates women’s football tournamentAn amateur women’s football team featuring five transgender players has ignited controversy after absolutely dominating a women’s competition in Sydney. A Sydney women’s soccer team which features five transgender players has sparked controversy after dominating the North West Sydney League… Read more: Women’s team with five trans players dominates women’s football tournament
- ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forumA 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… Read more: ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forum
- More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimesViolent 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… Read more: More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
- Gender rights groups clash over lettersThe clash between rights groups over gender ideology has spilled over the Tasmanian school system, after an activist sent letters to school principals all over the state warning that “ideology driven programs” potentially place kids at harm. Former Hobart alderman… Read more: Gender rights groups clash over letters
- LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in HobartA war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state. LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for… Read more: LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in Hobart
- How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?Patients are supposed to be at the heart of everything the NHS does. This is considered such an important principle that, a decade ago, the fledgling NHS constitution was rewritten after the mid-Staffs scandal, in which so many patients died, to make clear it… Read more: How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?
- The gender issue deserves urgent and open debateParenting has never been easy and the onslaught of competing pressures vying for the attention of impressionable young minds makes ti more difficult still. For many, navigating the highly charged terrain of puberty represents a high-water mark ni the parental… Read more: The gender issue deserves urgent and open debate
- Year 7 students are urged to question their gender identity as part of a ‘well-being’ program – parents left fumingAustralian students as young as 12 have been encouraged to explore new gender identities without their parents knowledge. The move is part of a well-being program for students running in multiple states to help bolster their mental health. But some teachers and… Read more: Year 7 students are urged to question their gender identity as part of a ‘well-being’ program – parents left fuming
- GPs lose part of insurance coverOne of the country’s biggest medical insurers will no longer cover private practitioners prescribing gender affirming care to adolescents. MDA National, one of four major medical indemnity providers insuring GPs and other private practitioners against legal claims, updated its policy… Read more: GPs lose part of insurance cover
- Judges warned of ‘worst medical scandal in 100 years’Family Court judges are being urged to consider new evidence of the effects of hormone treatments and puberty blockers on young Australians that refutes a gender-affirming model of care. The paper documents in forensic detail a lack of clinical consensus… Read more: Judges warned of ‘worst medical scandal in 100 years’
- Parents raise alarm school ‘wellbeing teams’ encourage children to question genderParents are raising the alarm that some high schools are “crossing the line” in not only supporting students to socially transition as the opposite sex without parents’ knowledge but actively encouraging children to question gender identities. Concerned teachers say “wellbeing… Read more: Parents raise alarm school ‘wellbeing teams’ encourage children to question gender
- TikTok takes on transformative roleLawrence Bing sits in front of the camera with his eyes closed and smiles nervously into a mirror as his mother undoes his chest covering to perform his “top surgery reveal”. He looks ecstatic as he opens his eyes and… Read more: TikTok takes on transformative role
- ‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’Amid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years… Read more: ‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’
- Transgender teenager suffered being ‘in the wrong body’Transgender teenager Eli struggles to describe how it feels to be “in the wrong body” because – despite commencing medical transition – he is yet to know how it feels to be in the right body. The 15-year-old began his… Read more: Transgender teenager suffered being ‘in the wrong body’
- Tasmanian Labor pledges to extend hate laws to transphobia and homophobiaTasmanian Labor has vowed to extend race hate laws to also cover crimes motivated by transphobia, homophobia and potentially sexism. The move would allow judges and magistrates to impose a tougher sentence on offenders motivated by such hatreds, and has… Read more: Tasmanian Labor pledges to extend hate laws to transphobia and homophobia
- Anti-trans feminist group calls for inquiry into protest shutdownThe anti-trans feminist group that attempted to stage a protest outside state parliament last month has written to Premier Jeremy Rockliff to request an inquiry into the circumstances that led to police failing to prevent counter-protesters approaching the protest group… Read more: Anti-trans feminist group calls for inquiry into protest shutdown
- The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weakPrisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after… Read more: The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
- Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation imagesA 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… Read more: Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images
- ‘I’m no Nazi; just public enemy No. 1’, says transgender law critic Kellie-Jay KeenA British activist who led an anti-transgender reform rally alongside a Victorian Liberal MP says the neo-Nazis who ambushed their event are “sad, pathetic men” and she has no links to the far right, as Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier… Read more: ‘I’m no Nazi; just public enemy No. 1’, says transgender law critic Kellie-Jay Keen
- Anti-trans activist Posie Parker’s Hobart event swarmed by protesters ahead of Auckland stopThe latest stop on anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s Let Women Speak tour in Tasmania saw the self-described women’s rights activist swarmed by hundreds of protesters who drowned out the relatively small number of people who turned out in support. The spirited response… Read more: Anti-trans activist Posie Parker’s Hobart event swarmed by protesters ahead of Auckland stop
- Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letterThe editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is… Read more: Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter
- Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.Doctors treating children at a major public hospital gender clinic have questioned the basis of the ‘gender-affirming’ approach in medicine. Senior physicians at the NSW Children’s Hospital Westmead’s gender clinic have studied the physical and mental health of 79 patients… Read more: Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.
- Protest staged over transgender access to change roomsBiological males should not be given access to female change rooms and other female-only spaces, according to a group of activists that staged a protest at a council swimming pool in Hobart on Friday morning. About five members of activist… Read more: Protest staged over transgender access to change rooms
- Tribunal says men who identify as lesbians cannot be excluded from lesbian eventsA state Tribunal has denied Launceston woman Jessica Hoyle’s appeal (which was made in conjunction with LGB Alliance Australia) to obtain an exemption under Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act in order to hold a lesbian women only event excluding trans-identifying males. The application for… Read more: Tribunal says men who identify as lesbians cannot be excluded from lesbian events
- Conversion Therapy forum staged in HobartA 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… Read more: Conversion Therapy forum staged in Hobart
- Robust and respectful free debate is vitalComment 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… Read more: Robust and respectful free debate is vital
- Targeted campaign against conversion therapy ban as Tasmania looks to outlaw practiceA targeted campaign is being run in Tasmania against plans to ban conversion therapy, including a Liberal MP hosting an upcoming event in Parliament House questioning the move. Survivors of conversion therapies, and LGBTIQA+ groups, argue the campaign fundamentally misrepresents the… Read more: Targeted campaign against conversion therapy ban as Tasmania looks to outlaw practice
- NSW serial killer Regina Kaye Arthurell arrested after alleged sexual crimeA NSW ‘woman’ convicted three times for homicide has been arrested again in Sydney. A NSW woman convicted three times for homicide has been arrested over an alleged sexual crime. Regina Kaye Arthurell, 75, was arrested on Friday after she… Read more: NSW serial killer Regina Kaye Arthurell arrested after alleged sexual crime
- Gender-critical Tasmanian women are given permission to speakA council meeting in Hobart has received some press attention for a motion brought by Councillor Jax Fox. The meeting itself is a perfect study in the way local councils, whose traditional business is rates and rubbish, are being corrupted in the… Read more: Gender-critical Tasmanian women are given permission to speak
- Calling a trans woman a man ‘not necessarily vilification’, a Canberra court has ruledA Canberra court has ruled that calling a trans woman a man is “not necessarily” vilification, setting a higher bar for “victimisation” in the transgender debate. The new ruling by the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal partly upholds an appeal… Read more: Calling a trans woman a man ‘not necessarily vilification’, a Canberra court has ruled
- Psychiatrists take a cautious turn on youth gender clinicsPsychiatrists have been alerted to the ethical and legal risks of medicalised gender change for young people and the lack of good evidence on whether it helps or harms. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists has adopted… Read more: Psychiatrists take a cautious turn on youth gender clinics
- A new group opposes ‘gender ideology’ in public schoolsA years-old policy that has successfully supported young people of diverse sexuality and gender in Tasmanian schools is being criticised by the newly formed group Keep Gender Ideology Out of Schools. The Supporting Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools and… Read more: A new group opposes ‘gender ideology’ in public schools
- ‘Don’t call predators pedophiles’ ABC tells reporters in leaked emailABC reporters in Tasmania have been told to “avoid” referring to child sex abusers as pedophiles, to avoid marginalising people with pedophilia. An email sent to all news staff this week advises against the use of the term “pedophile”, even… Read more: ‘Don’t call predators pedophiles’ ABC tells reporters in leaked email
- Discrimination complaint over transgender, female changerooms remarks against senator droppedA discrimination complaint against Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler over her comments on female change rooms and transgender women has been dropped. A discrimination complaint against Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler over her comments on female change rooms and transgender women has… Read more: Discrimination complaint over transgender, female changerooms remarks against senator dropped