Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2018

  • Transgender campaign misinformation continues

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Roen Meijers of Transforming Tasmania continues to be confused about the issue of Birth Certificate registrations as it is not gender that is recorded, but sex. Additionally, the Options Paper on transgender law reform released for public consultation by former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, in…

  • Greens label anti-transgender stickers hateful

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    The debate over gender markers on birth certificates has ramped up with anti-transgender stickers described as”hateful and hurtful” appearing throughout Hobart. The stickers are shaped like penises and carry the phrase “Women don’t have penises” Transforming Tasmania spokeswoman Martine Delaney said it was clear the stickers had been distributed by groups looking to deny the…

  • O’Connor and White in Damage Control over Backlash on Transgender Reforms

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    By Women Speak Tasmania While Labor Opposition leader, Rebecca White, moves to distance the party from a deal with the Greens to fast track changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, the Greens’ Cassy O’Connor has resorted to accusations of transphobia against those calling for public consultation on the issue. It’s now very…

  • Transforming Tasmania Shouldn’t Shut Down Birth Certificate Debate

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Transforming Tasmania’s proposed changes to birth registration and anti-discrimination law in Tasmania are radical amendments that shouldn’t be rushed through parliament. Labor and the Greens need to support the Government’s referral of those amendments to the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute so the Tasmanian people can…

  • Labor and the Greens Under Pressure Over Birth Certificate Changes

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Women Speak Tasmania is hearing from many women across Tasmania who are outraged at Labor and the Greens attempt to fast track changes to birth certificates at the behest of Transforming Tasmania. Never before has the community witnessed such unashamed fast tracking of legislation, with…

  • Don’t agree with trans ideology? UTAS will find a way to silence you

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania On 6 August last, Tasmanian Times published an article titled ‘Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights Debate’ The article featured five case studies that exemplified the dominant narrative in this debate – supportive of the trans rights agenda and dismissive of a women’s rights…

  • Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspective

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania In recent years, ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ have become a feature of anti-discrimination law in Australia at both the federal and state levels. Transgender rights proponents are now lobbying for radical changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas) that will enable…

  • Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania And what about the Mercury? In the last few months Tasmanian Times has published several articles on the transgender rights debate written by women from Women Speak Tasmania. Most of these articles were also sent out nationally as Media Releases.  No mainstream media in Australia has…

  • Protesters Call for Boycott of Girl Guides Australia

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Women Speak Tasmania has held a street protest against Girl Guides Australia’s recently released policy that allows biological male persons, both boys and adult men, to join the organisation as members and leaders Thursday 11 October 2018 was International Day of the Girl Child.  Girls…

  • Karen White: how ‘manipulative’ transgender inmate attacked again

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    Transgender politics – like any politics – can be divisive. Yet in the case of Karen White, who is legally still a man but was put in a female-only prison, both sides of the transgender rights debate are united in the belief mistakes were made. White entered the UK prison system as transgender. However, despite dressing…