Tag: 2023
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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…
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Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears.
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…
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NSW Westmead Children’s Hospital Study points to urgent review of Tasmanian Gender Service Guidelines
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…
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Opinion: Ignorance on Impacts of Gender Law Reforms
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…