Tag: 2023
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
Prisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breast removed as a 16 year old on…
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A Dark Day for Women’s Free Speech and Right to Lawful and Peaceful Assembly in Tasmania
How Tasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House In Tasmania we like to regard our state as a peaceful and accepting place where our people can safely and freely discuss the important issues of the day. But on Tuesday 21st, March 2023 we found to our dismay that there is one…
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Analysis of “Asleep at the Wheel: An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools”
The “Asleep at the Wheel: An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools” report reveals that many UK schools are neglecting the most basic safeguarding duties when it comes to gender identity. Parents are being excluded, single-sex spaces are disappearing, and contested ideologies are being taught as truth. Vulnerable children—including girls, autistic pupils, and those…
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Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images
A 30-year-old woman going through a gender change and her 23-year-old male partner have each been convicted of possessing child exploitation material. Anna Koizumi Umpisa Simmons appeared in the Burnie Magistrate’s Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child exploitation material. Magistrate Leanne Topfer fined Simmons $500 plus court costs, but…
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The Media’s Campaign Against Media Freedom and Free Speech in Tasmania – Let Women Speak
This speech, delivered by Isla MacGregor at the Let Women Speak rally on the Parliament House lawns in Hobart in March 2023, outlines her concerns about media coverage, public institutions, and gender-identity policy debates in Tasmania. She argues that journalists and broadcasters have avoided reporting viewpoints from women’s and children’s rights advocates, describes her experiences…
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Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter
The editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is no longer the editor of The Examiner newspaper, just days after explaining he did not have…
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Regarding Toilet Facilities at Schools and Drag Queen Storytime – Email to DECYP
Below are emails between Women Speak Tasmania and the Department of Education, Children and Young People, with regards of Department policy on new unisex bathrooms at schools and Drag Queen storytime Letter from Ellen Thorne 26.02.23 Good afternoon, I am writing to request some information as to the design of school redevelopments with reference to…
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Poster – Free Speech Alliance Australia
Freedom of speech for women is under serious threat in Australia. The Free Speech Alliance Australia has released a poster and a record highlighting women from across the political spectrum who have been silenced or punished simply for expressing their views on sex-based rights. These women have been sacked, banned, no-platformed, expelled, vilified, and subjected…