Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2023

  • Department of Education Instructs Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report “Asleep at the Wheel”

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    A Department of Education representative has told its schools to ignore an important report that was recently provided to them by Safeguarding Children in Schools. The report, titled Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools, was provided to public schools following growing concerns amongst Tasmanian parents and teachers into…

  • Attorney General Elise Archer Must Intervene on Parole Granted to Tobias Pick

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    Women Speak Tasmania are appalled at the low sentence and recent granting of parole to Tobias Pick for the killing of prostituted woman Jingai Zhang in 2020. “Not only was the sentence of five years manifestly inadequate but to release Pick after only two and half years sends an appalling message to the community about…

  • Is Terry White Pharmacy Excluding Mothers?

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    In June 2023, a catalogue from Terry White Chemmart (covering items on sale from 1–20 June) included a page titled “A family affair” promoting vaccination. The text stated: “The birthing parent is the most important person in the family to be vaccinated.” This wording replaces the clear and widely understood term “mother” with a clinical…

  • When Journalists Silence Debate: Leon Compton Saying NO Debate on the Drum

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    On 9 June 2023, ABC journalist Leon Compton appeared on The Drum and made an extraordinary admission. He questioned whether dissenting views should be aired at all: “As a journalist it’s sometimes hard because you want to air a balance of perspectives but what perspectives are reasonable to air? Particularly those that dress up opposition,…

  • Opinion: Let Kids be Safe from Harmful Treatments

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    Anthony Haneveer’s editorial ‘Let kids be kept safe from ignorance’ (Examiner 14 June 2023) is a continuum of his attack on anyone who does not conform to the narrative being promoted by a small section of the queer community in Tasmania. His attack on LGB Tasmania exposes his very personal interest in this issue. Far…

  • LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in Hobart

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    A war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state. LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for people under the age of 18, claimed it has booked another billboard in the Launceston…

  • Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children

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    Women Speak Tasmania and LGB Tasmania members kicked off an awareness raising campaign “Let Kids be Kids” Currently in this era of ‘gender affirmation’, schools are taking an active role in socially transitioning children with gender dysphoria, by encouraging the changing of names, pronouns, uniform and allowing them to enter single sex spaces and sports…

  • Cutting Out Parents put Kids at Risk

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    Should organisations promoting gender affirming care be able to ignore the recommendations of a Royal Commission aimed at keeping kids safe? A Royal Commission Sadly we know all too well in Australia about the horrors of child sexual abuse and the damage it has done to countless children, many of whom are now adults. We…

  • ‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’

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    Amid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years ago when Elizabeth discovered her 13-year-old daughter was binding her developing breasts with packing tape.…

  • Open Letter to Board of Directors Equality Australia

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    From:  An Alliance of Australian lesbian, women’s and children’s rights organisations Dear Directors of the Board of Equality Australia, We the undersigned represent a broad alliance of lesbian and women’s rights organisations in Australia who have come together to invite Equality Australia to participate in a mediated round table discussion over the substantive issues that…