2023 - Women Speak Tasmania

Protest at Hobart Aquatic Centre to keep single sex change rooms and toilets.

Feb 25, 2023

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Protesters will gather outside the Centre to talk to patrons as they enter the pool in the morning. Joining the protest will be Glenorchy Alderman and retired teacher Harry Quick and former Hobart Alderman and teacher Jeff Briscoe. Posters in the women’s toilets and change rooms at the Hobart Aquatic Centre instruct female patrons that…

ABC Radio Breakfast – Complaint to Fiona Cameron

Feb 20, 2023

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in Correspondence, Media Bias

Dear Fiona, Thank you for your reply and I now have found the time to submit another complaint to you. My complaint concerns several matters. Firstly: Regarding ABC Radio Breakfast host Ryk Goddard’s Breakfast show on Tuesday 14th February at approx. 7.48am with regard to a Motion being put forward by Cr Louise Elliott and…

Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.

Feb 18, 2023

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in News

Doctors treating children at a major public hospital gender clinic have questioned the basis of the ‘gender-affirming’ approach in medicine. Senior physicians at the NSW Children’s Hospital Westmead’s gender clinic have studied the physical and mental health of 79 patients in a rare academic study of the outcomes of children who presented with gender distress…

NSW Westmead Children’s Hospital Study points to urgent review of Tasmanian Gender Service Guidelines

Feb 18, 2023

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in Media Releases

Premier Jeremy Rockcliff needs to take urgent action on the findings of a study covered in The Australian today including on the front page Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears. The Tasmanian Gender Service has come under pressure from numerous groups in Tasmania in past years over its ‘affirmative only approach’, the…

Opinion: Ignorance on Impacts of Gender Law Reforms

Feb 6, 2023

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in Articles

The Advocate Editorial ‘Trans, gender diverse face fear, ignorance’ (Saturday Feb 4th 2023), promotes an ideological position, which may represent the personal views of Anthony Haneveer but do not represent the views of the vast majority of Advocate readership. Without speaking to any of the people at the Hobart Aquatic Centre protest last Friday, to…

Protest staged over transgender access to change rooms

Feb 3, 2023

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in News, Women’s Safe Spaces

Biological males should not be given access to female change rooms and other female-only spaces, according to a group of activists that staged a protest at a council swimming pool in Hobart on Friday morning. About five members of activist group LGB Tasmania protested the Hobart City Council’s policy of granting trans women access to…

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