Tag: 2024
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Managing Gender Dysphoria in Young People – NAPP Guide
Gender dysphoria/incongruence in young people is a contested area of medical practice. The National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP) Guide avoids political, social, religious and ideological positions.
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Policies of Sports Governing Bodies on Inclusion of Transgender Athletes
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by Sarah Kingsley OVERVIEW There is considerable disjunction in the attitudes of various organisations to the essential question of whether biological sex confers significant difference in performance between male and female athletes: and if there are such differences, whether hormone treatments are sufficient to create the required level playing field. At the beginning it was…
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Trans-Identified Male Hired by Australian Medical Association Sharing Self-Made BDSM Porn on Social Media
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By Genevieve Gluck The Australian Medical Association (AMA) in Victoria has hired a “fetishistic” trans-identified male to act as a regulatory liaison officer for medical professionals. Brooke Collins, who publicly posts BDSM pornography on social media, wields influence over medical professionals and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, and in his role as a liasison,…
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ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaign
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The Albanese government has given a seven-figure contract to a LGBTQ group which produced a cancer campaign targeting women, using non-gendered language such as “people with a cervix”. The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby group to produce a women’s cancer campaign using non-gendered language, despite the public health message…
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Gender and Sexuality inclusive language – UTAS Ethics committee
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In October 2024, an email title ‘Gender and Sexuality Inclusive language – Guidelines’ was sent to HREC members. The email was to remind all members to use inclusive language in their research and research applications. It reads “It is our obligation – not an option – to support and uphold this policy in all aspects…
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‘Pedophile’ TikTok star Rachel Queen Burton faces sentencing submissions in District Court
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in NewsA TikTok influencer who amassed a large following sharing her experiences as a trans woman has faced a sentencing hearing. A TikTok star who abused two children told her mother she’s still “the queen” and planned to become famous once released from custody, a court has heard. Rachel Queen Burton, who victims called a pedophile,…
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Human Rights relating to Women
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By Sarah Kingsley United Nations Documents There is a range of legislation including international covenants and Australian law that governs human rights. The base document that outlines all human rights is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The most important relating specifically…
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U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
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in NewsThe leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the…
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It’s official, our new website is up and running!!
WOMEN SPEAK TASMANIA is proud to announce that we now have a website! Women Speak Tasmania was formed in 2018 and since then we have been working to return and protect the rights of women and children in Tasmania. The website is an archive of our activities and much more! It serves as our ‘Accountability…
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Call on Minister to act on UN Special Rapporteur Report on Women’s Sport
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Women Speak Tasmania have called on the Minister for Sport to take action following UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem’s report on women’s sports. With consideration to Algerian professional boxer Imane Khelif Olympics boxing fiasco and numerous other cases of trans-identified males competing in women’s sports, Reem Alsalem has stated…