Tag: 2025
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Australian Clinicians Call for Halt of Gender Affirming Interventions – Open Letter to Australian Health Bodies
Over 100 Australian clinicians have signed the letter calling for the halt of gender affirming interventions. Read below: OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN HEALTH BODIES REGARDING GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS As clinicians, we call on our professional bodies and regulatory authorities to urgently acknowledge and respond to recent international and local developments in the field of youth gender…
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Coming Together: A Women Speak Tasmania Meeting
In June 2025, Women Speak Tasmania hosted a powerful gathering in Hobart, bringing together women from all walks of life with one shared goal: defending the rights of women and children. It was a meeting of hearts, minds, and stories—where conversations sparked understanding, inspiration, and a determination to act. Sharing Our Stories, Finding Our Strength…
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Gender Ideology and Cult Behaviour
Does gender ideology exhibit cult-like behaviour? According to Steven Hassan’s BITE model of mind control, destructive cults exert control through four key components: Behaviour, Information, Thought, and Emotion. When a group successfully controls one or more of these components, the others are likely to follow, reinforcing the system of influence. When examined against these four…
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Advocating for Transparency in Children’s Education: The Growing Up Program
In June 2025, Women Speak Tasmania reached out to Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) to request detailed information about the Growing Up Program (GUP), a sexuality and protective behaviours program delivered in Tasmanian primary schools. Our inquiry focused on understanding how the program addresses the concept of “identity,” particularly in relation to gender, and its alignment…
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Family Planning Tasmania GUP – Letter to CEO Lalla Mackenzie
Dear Ms Mackenzie, Re: Request for Detailed Information on the “Growing Up” Program I am writing to request further detail regarding the Growing Up Program (GUP) delivered by Family Planning Tasmania in Tasmanian primary schools: https://fpt.org.au/programs/schools-educators/growing-up-program-gup Your website notes that the program aligns with: Our query relates specifically to how your organisation teaches the concept…
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Fairness Under Strain: Women’s Sport in Tasmania at a Crossroads
Tasmanian international and national cycling competitor Jodie Willett took a stand that made headlines. She resigned from her membership of AusCycling, saying she could not continue under a policy that allowed trans-identified males to compete in the women’s category. Willett wrote to the organisation explaining that until AusCycling and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) created…
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Questions on the Tasmanian Gender Service: Our Follow-Up with the Health Minister
On 18 March, Women Speak Tasmania met with Health Minister Jacquie Petrusma to raise serious concerns about the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS). Following that meeting, we wrote to the Minister to confirm our questions and seek clarity on several key issues surrounding the treatment of children and young people with gender dysphoria. Our Questions We…
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I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends
As a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position I am a human rights lawyer and professor at King’s College London. Until 2018, I supported all the demands of the transgender-rights movement. But since then, I have changed my mind. Why? Because I finally…
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As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife
A woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent. A young woman who thought for years she was non-binary or a transgender man is suing two doctors and Monash Health for negligence, claiming gender treatment that included having both breasts surgically removed had caused her…
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Poster – Tavistock Clinic Scandal is Bigger than The Cass Review
An overview poster highlighting the Tavistock clinic’s repeated failures to safeguard children, prioritising gender ideology over patient safety.