Tag: 2022
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Call on Minister for Health to Urgently Review Tasmanian Gender Service Treatment Guidelines
Following recent statements by Dr Marci Bowers and Dr Erica Anderson, two top US gender medical providers and board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), we are calling on the Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockcliff to implement a review of current treatment guidelines used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the…
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Call for Children’s Commissioner to Conduct Inquiry into Tasmanian Gender Service following closure of Tavistock
Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner urging her to establish an independent inquiry into the current “gender affirmation” model of treatment being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the treatment of minors struggling with gender dysphoria. WST wrote to Leanne Mclean to advise her of the recently announced closure of…
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Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service – Letter to Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean
Exchange of emails between Isla MacGregor, member of Women Speak Tasmania and Children’s Commissioner Leanne McLean Letter from Isla MacGregor 18.08.22 Dear Leanne, Re: Inquiry into Tasmania Gender Service following closure of Tavistock Gender Clinic Women Speak Tasmania are writing to you to request that you urgently conduct an independent inquiry into the current “gender…
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No penises, please: Lesbian who wants to ban trans women and men from her public parties comes under fire – but she fires back: ‘It’s humiliating being told to include someone with a d**k’
A lesbian who wants to ban anyone with ‘penises’ from attending her drag events has vowed to take her fight against the anti-discrimination watchdog to the High Court. Jess Hoyle wants to hold lesbian-only drag nights in her Tasmanian hometown of Launceston, but would refuse to welcome transgender women or men. Wanting to do ‘everything by…
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Complaint Against Kenji Sato for Incorrect and False Reporting – Letter to the Mercury Editor Craig Warhurst
Dear Craig, RE: Complaint against Kenji Sato for incorrect and false reporting I am writing to you with regard to an article that Kenjii Sato authored and was printed and also put online in the Mercury on the 7 June 2022. The article named “Anti Trans feminists lodge complaint over ‘f—king flag” was regarding a…
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Primum non nocere – An Open Letter to Australia’s Doctors
Dear Doctor, In Australia, we have a clear template of the standard referral pathway. General practitioners refer to specialists, who refer to sub-specialists. Whenever we feel we need a more specialised opinion than our own we refer the patient to a colleague along this pathway. We can often choose to whom we refer; we may…