Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2018

  • Attack on Women’s Rights

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    Women Speak Tasmania representatives met with Honourable Sue Hickey Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly to discuss our concerns about Labor and Greens fast tracking of reforms to changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act. Coincidentally The Mercury published a Letter to the Editor from Isla MacGregor outlining the implications of proposed…

  • 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…

  • Tasmania to be first Aussie state to remove gender on birth certificate

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    Today, in an article titled “Tasmania to be First Aussie State to Remove Gender on Birth Certificate” (24 October 2018), journalist Ally Foster reported on proposed amendments to Tasmania’s birth registration laws that would remove sex markers from birth certificates and allow transgender people to change the sex recorded on official documents without undergoing surgery.…

  • Tasmania on verge of removing gender from birth certificates

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    Today, in an article for The Australian titled “Tasmania on Verge of Removing Gender from Birth Certificates” (23 October 2018), journalist Matthew Denholm reported on proposed amendments to Tasmania’s birth registration laws that would remove sex markers from birth certificates and eliminate the requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery before changing the sex recorded…

  • 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…

  • Doubts about Tasmanian Law Reform Institute Impartiality 

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    Women Speak Tasmania is calling on the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to co-sponsor a forum dedicated to providing a women’s rights perspective on transgender law reform proposals. ‘Women Speak Tasmania is developing a series of policies addressing a range of issues in the transgender rights debate.  Two of those policies, dealing with anti-discrimination law and…