Tag: 2024
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Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only app
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in NewsA transgender woman who sued a women-only social media app for alleged gender discrimination has been awarded $10,000 plus costs after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against in a landmark decision that tested the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act. Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, sued…
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Pseudoscience & the Olympic fiasco
Before the Sydney Olympics in 2000 athletes underwent genetic testing. A simple cheek swab would ensure everyone was competing in their respective male and female categories. Any issue with intersex athletes was dealt with on a case to case basis. This was done to ensure fairness and safeguarding of all athletes. Somehow the International Olympic…
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Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender
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Opinion piece by Doriane Lambelet Coleman Two dozen U.S. boys under 17 swim faster than Katie Ledecky in her best event. After an ugly controversy erupted at the Paris Olympics, the critical question in elite women’s sport still needs an answer: Who should get to participate in the female category? At the Games, two formerly…
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Comments on leaked documents from Tasmanian teacher training program
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in SchoolsThe Tasmania Department for Education, Children and Young People is providing training to all primary and secondary teachers in collaboration with the political lobby group Working it Out. We obtain some slides provided during the teachers training, here are our comments Gender Dysphoria at Schools The training promotes the social transition of children with gender…
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Push for Parliamentary Inquiry into sex self ID Laws following Olympics Fiasco
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In the last few days the world has been witness to the disastrous result that sex self ID laws have had on women’s sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has failed to protect female athletes by allowing men who identify as women, whether intersex or transgender, to compete against women. Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor said…
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Letter to Jo Palmer schools HPE training program
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Good afternoon Ms. Palmer, We are writing to draw your attention to the extremely disturbing content of a teacher training program being delivered to Tasmanian primary and secondary school teachers by the organization Working It Out on behalf of your department, the DECYP. Women Speak Tasmania has recently been alerted to the content of the…
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Inquiry into sex self ID after Olympics Fiasco
Tasmanians will no doubt be interested in the IOCs turning a blind eye to the International Boxing Organisation’s warning about the serious problems with allowing males to compete in women’s sports. While the Olympics fiasco concerns a person with a Disorder of Sex Development, DSD, and not a trans identified male competing in women’s sports,…
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Presentation and Interview with Dr Hillary Cass
You might be wondering who Dr. Hilary Cass is and why her work has garnered significant attention. Dr. Hilary Cass was commissioned by the NHS in 2020 to conduct a review after a whistleblower raised concerns about the Gender Identity and Development Service (GIDS), the only specialist gender clinic for young people in England and…
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Puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise – review
There is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found. Professor Louis Appleby was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to examine the data following claims made by campaigners of a rise in suicide rates since puberty-blocking drugs were restricted at the…
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Letter to federal Health Minister Mark Butler
WST wrote to the Federal Health Minister to campaign for an inquiry into Gender Clinics in Australia Read our letter… Dear Federal Health Minister Mark Butler, We are a grassroots organization in Tasmania advocating for women’s sex based rights and pushing back against gender ideology. Our latest campaign called upon the Tasmanian State Government to…