Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2018

  • Tasmanian Women’s Services Support Trans Law Reform, Then Shut Down Online Debate

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    On 7 November, four Tasmanian Women’s Services – Women’s Legal Service Tasmania, Engender Equality, Hobart Women’s Shelter and Women’s Health Tasmania – issued a statement in support of Labor and the Greens proposed transgender law reforms. In that statement, Women Speak Tasmania was roundly criticised for opposing the reforms. “We believe allowing self-identification changes to…

  • Women’s Groups Intentionally Oversimplify the Impacts of Trans Law Reforms

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    Yesterday’s joint statement by Tasmanian women’s groups, Women’s Legal Service Tasmania, Engender Equality, Hobart Women’s Shelter and Women’s Health Tasmania, continues the litany of oversimplified assurances about the benign nature of the radical birth registration and anti-discrimination law reforms proposed by Labor and the Greens. If they want to justify their claim that the amendments…

  • 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…

  • Attack on Women’s Rights

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    LABOR and Green’s proposals for transgender law reform are an attack on women’s and girls’ rights. Any person would be able to claim they identify as a woman, regardless of appearance or anything else, and enter girls’ or women-only spaces with impunity. To question any person who allegedly claims to be a woman would be…

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

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    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 clear the Tasmanian people…

  • Transforming Tasmania Shouldn’t Shut Down Birth Certificate Debate

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    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 have their say. These amendments, if they become law, will…

  • Women Speak Tasmania – Women’s Rights and Transgender Law Reform

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    Policy Proposals on Anti-Discrimination Law and Birth Certificates Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has developed a set of policies that seek to restore clarity to the way sex and gender are treated in Tasmanian law. At the heart of these proposals is the principle that biological sex must be recognised and protected, while social identity should…

  • Labor and the Greens Under Pressure Over Birth Certificate Changes

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    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 trans rights activists insisting the matter was broadly discussed, with…

  • Don’t Agree with Trans Ideology? UTAS will Find a Way to Silence You

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    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 perspective -see https://tasmaniantimes.com/2018/08/silencing-and-censorship-in-the-trans-rights-debate1-d1 One case study described a complaint against…

  • Community Consultation Essential for Transforming Tasmania Proposals 

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    ‘Women Speak Tasmania is calling on Transforming Tasmania to justify their claims that radical amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas) are of no particular concern to the community at large’, said Women Speak Tasmania spokesperson, Bronwyn Williams. Transforming Tasmania spokesperson, Martine Delaney, says “there has been virtually no public concern…