Tag: 2024
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‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forum
A feminist group opposed to trans ideology is claiming censorship after the Burnie Library cancelled a forum organised for Thursday to discuss the use of puberty blockers in Tasmania. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) spokesperson Isla MacGregor said the forum was organised to warn parents of the risks of the use of gender medicine. But the…
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Candidates Back Inquiries into Tasmanian Gender Service and Sex Self ID laws
Women Speak Tasmania are pleased to announce that in response to a questionnaire (see below) sent to all candidates the following 16 Independent and Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers Party of Tasmania (SFFPT) candidates have backed the urgent establishment of Parliamentary Inquiries into the Tasmanian Gender Service and Sex Self ID Laws: Ind Louise Elliot, Phillip…
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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WPATH: Not Evidence-Based, Children at Risk
The recently released WPATH Files expose disturbing internal communications among clinicians responsible for the so-called “Standards of Care.” These exchanges show that WPATH is not a scientific or evidence-based organisation, but one driven by ideology and activism. WPATH and the Repetition of Medical Scandals History provides sobering lessons about what happens when ideology or medical…
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Analysis of the Leak Files from The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
The internal emails reveal serious ethical, medical, and scientific concerns within WPATH itself. Far from presenting a unified, evidence-based standard of care, these exchanges show members openly acknowledging the lack of evidence, the risks to young people, and the fact that they are making things up as they go. 1. Acknowledgement of Lack of Evidence…
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More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
Violent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than…
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Fix conversion laws before banning conversion practices
Safeguarding Children in Schools Australia and Women Speak Tasmania will be calling on the new Government once elected, to urgently review existing conversion laws before debating any anti conversion Bill put before parliament. Today we have released our Submission to the draft Justice Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024. In principle, we support laws that prevent…
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Justice Miscellaneous -Conversion Practices- Bill 2024
While commendable in principle, the Government’s proposed Bill intended to ban conversion practices that attempt to change or eradicate the sexual orientation or gender identity of another person, fails to address critical inconsistencies with existing laws regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. In principle, we support laws that prevent conversion practices for sexual orientation, however…