Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2018

  • 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…

  • Transgender Law Reform – Women Speak the Truth

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    While several groups and individuals are lobbying for extended transgender rights at law, Women Speak Tasmania is working on a comprehensive series of policies to address changes in the law that have promoted the rights of transgender persons ahead of the sex-based rights of women. “We have drafted two policy position papers, initially, that consider…

  • Is Mainstream Media in Australia Afraid to Cover Women’s Views on the Transgender Rights Debate?

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    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 contacted us to follow up on our views. This lack…

  • Protest and Boycott Call Over Girl Guides Australia’s Trans Inclusion Policy

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    On October 11, 2018, Women Speak Tasmania held a street protest calling for a boycott of Girl Guides Australia (GGA). The protest coincided with International Day of the Girl Child and raised concerns about the organisation’s policy change allowing male-bodied people who identify as female to join as members and leaders. WST argued that this…

  • When Children Say They’re Trans

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    Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers. By Jesse Singal Claire is a 14-year-old girl with short auburn hair and a broad smile. She lives outside Philadelphia with her mother and father, both professional scientists. Claire can come across as an introvert, but she quickly opens up, and what seemed like shyness reveals…

  • Opposition Grows Against Transgender Rights Campaign

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    Newly formed group Women Speak Tasmania, are ramping up their campaign to oppose reforms proposed by transgender lobby group Transforming  Tasmania. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘We are talking with many people in the Tasmanian community, especially women, who are shocked at the loss of safe women only services in Tasmania and the threats suggested by…

  • Calls for Review of Sex Discrimination Laws

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    Women Speak Tasmania is calling for uniform changes to federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘We are calling on all Australian legislatures to urgently address the need for accurate and effective definitions of “sex” and “gender identity” in anti-discrimination laws across Australia’. ‘We must develop uniform laws in all Australian jurisdictions to…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3

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    Part Three. “I am not a Woman” – Transsexuals and Transgender Women Speak Out Today, the dominant discourse in the transgender rights debate insists that transgender women are ‘women’. It is not uncommon to hear the argument that, because they are women, their biology is female and it is ‘transphobic’ to suggest they are biological…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2

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    Part Two. The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal from participation, censorship, bullying, threats, intimidation, silencing, stonewalling and expulsion from groups for those who express dissent from the ‘popular’ transgender narrative. The following Tasmanian case studies outline examples of trans rights crusaders and their ideological supporters apparently acting in a manner inconsistent with…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1

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    Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The media has an…