Tag: 2025
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Feminist Groups Demand a Voice in the ALRC’s Review of Surrogacy Laws
As members of a coalition of independent feminist organisations from across Australia, we have jointly submitted our response to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) for its review of surrogacy laws. Our position is unequivocal: all forms of surrogacy constitute sex-based violence against women and girls and perpetuate systemic exploitation, and we maintain that only a universal…
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Analysis of the UN Report by Reem Alsalem titled Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls: New Frontiers and Emerging Issues (A/HRC/59/47)
Purpose of the Report The report examines new and evolving forms of sex-based violence against women and girls that remain underrecognized. It reaffirms the biological reality of sex as central to understanding female oppression and urges States to protect women’s sex-based rights, especially amid rising gender identity ideologies. Key Issues Identified International Legal Context Key…
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When Sex Becomes Gender: How Tasmania’s Law Rewrites Women’s Rights
In 2019, the Tasmanian Parliament passed the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage and Gender Amendments) Act. At first glance, the law looks like a technical update—modernising language, expanding anti-discrimination protections, and creating new processes for recording gender. But beneath the surface, it redefines the way the law understands sex and gender—with profound consequences for women…
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Amend the Sex Discrimination Act – Open Letter to the Australia Government
To whom it may concern, I am a woman and mother from Burnie, Tasmania. The Australian Labor Party has forsaken women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in favour of promoting and protecting a gender ideology that is actively damaging and harmful, not only to women and girls, but to children as a whole. The deliberate erasure…
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Support the Women’s Pledge: Protect Women’s Sex-Based Rights in Law – Letter to Tasmania State Politicians
Dear candidate, I am writing to urge you to support the Women’s Pledge initiated by Women Speak Tasmania, a campaign calling for the restoration of biological sex as a protected legal characteristic in Australian anti-discrimination legislation. This issue has now been recognised at the international level, with the latest report to the UN Human Rights…
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Judge’s ruling could rewrite nation’s gender medicine
Could it be that a judge – not a doctor – is about to change the face of gender medicine in Australia? Three significant Australian legal cases took out of the court’s hands the decision of whether a young person could be prescribed gender-affirming medicine. The Full Court in Re Jamie, in 2013, established parents…
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Mercury Reportage about Dr Julie Sladden – Letter to Robert Inglis
Dear Robert, I read your story in The Mercury today “Controversial Liberal candidate Julie Sladden should be dismissed, Labor says“ Did you read copy of Women Speak Tasmania’s Media Release sent to the Mercury yesterday or did it not reach you in time for your story? You will see from our Media Release the context…
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Analysis from the article: “Critiques of the Cass Review: Fact-Checking the Peer-Reviewed and Grey Literature”
This document critiques four articles that challenged the Cass Review, a report on pediatric transgender healthcare commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The analysis covers the document’s purpose, structure, key arguments, evidence, strengths, weaknesses, and implications. Overview The document is a scholarly article that responds to critics of the Cass Review, a comprehensive…
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Tasmanian Doctors Join National Call to Halt Gender Affirming Interventions
Tasmanian Doctors Julie Sladden and Rachel Bradley join national call to halt gender affirming interventions for gender distressed youth WST congratulate Tasmanian Doctors Julie Sladden and Rachel Bradley for signing an Open Letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions for gender distressed youth. The Open Letter signed by over 100 clinicians calls on…