Tag: 2025
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Women Speak Tasmania Congratulates Attorney-General for Protecting Female Prisoners
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) congratulates the Tasmanian Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Guy Barnett, for taking decisive action to protect vulnerable women in prison by ensuring that a male sex offender who identifies as female will serve his sentence in a male facility. This decision follows the recent sentencing of a Tasmanian father who identifies…
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Trans ban in Tasmanian jails after horrific rape of three-year-old
A father who raped his own three-year-old daughter has demanded to be placed in a women’s prison in Tasmania, prompting the state government to declare it has banned trans-identifying male prisoners from women’s prisons. The pedophile, described by Tasmanian prison sources as “the worst of the worst”, set up a camera to record himself engaging…
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Protest Against Libraries Tasmania: Standing Up for Women’s Voices
On Sunday, 9 November, members of Women Speak Tasmania (WST) gathered outside the Hobart Library in Murray Street to protest Libraries Tasmania’s ongoing ban on hiring meeting rooms to our organisation. We organised the protest to coincide with the busy Farm Gate Market, ensuring our message would reach a wide cross-section of the community. This…
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Former Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant admits doubts over landmark puberty blockers ruling
The former chief justice who led Australia’s Family Court when it green-lit liberalised access of puberty blockers to gender-distressed children in the 2010s reveals she now has doubts about the ruling. The judge who led Australia’s Family Court when it green-lit liberalised access of puberty blockers to gender-distressed children in 2013 has revealed she now…
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Women Protest Libraries Tasmania Ban
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) members are this morning protesting outside Hobart Library in Murray Street over Libraries Tasmania’s ban on hiring out community meeting facilities to our organisation. As reported by The Australian on 30 October 2025 (“Women’s group banned from Tasmanian libraries for ‘hate speech’”), WST has been permanently banned from hiring Libraries Tasmania…
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Transgender breastfeeding case sparks UN expert alert
UN’s top expert on violence against women has warned males ‘continue to be males’ regardless of gender identity amid an explosive Australian trans breastfeeding case. Males “continue to be males” no matter how they identify by gender, the UN’s top expert on violence against women has warned, as she entered the polarising debate on trans…
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Jennifer Buckley v Jasmine Sussex: test of science and freedom of speech as Queensland tribunal prepares to hear case over breastfeeding
A vilification complaint has taken on a life of its own, morphing into a test of freedom of speech and transgender rights as a Queensland tribunal prepares to hear an unprecedented case. After Adrian became Jennifer and booked in for sex reassignment surgery, she did what came naturally to a mum and breastfed her newborn…
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Analysis of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the world’s leading human rights treaty for children, setting out their civil, political, economic, and social rights. It establishes that every child is entitled to protection, guidance, and care that promote their wellbeing and development. Core Principles of the CRC The Convention is…
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Pamphlet “Libraries Tas: Free Speech NOT Here”
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has launched a campaign to expose Libraries Tasmania’s ban on our community meetings — a decision that prevents open discussion on safeguarding children, evidence-based healthcare, and women’s sex-based rights. As reported by The Australian (30 October 2025), this new “hate speech vetting” policy is silencing Tasmanians who simply wish to talk…
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Working It Out “Language Matters” Session: Emma Clarke’s Account
Introduction The following is an account by Emma Clarke of a Tasmanian Government-funded session run by Working It Out (WIO), titled “Language Matters”. The session was aimed at parents and focused on inclusive language, LGBTQIA+ terminology, and gender identity. Clarke attended to observe the session and provides a detailed account of her experience, raising concerns…