Tag: 2025
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Why Women’s Safety Must Be Central to Tasmania’s Prison Policy
Equality Tasmania welcomed the Custodial Inspector’s concern about the safety of LGBTIQA+ prisoners, following reports of assaults against gay men in Tasmanian prisons. In a December 2024 statement, Equality Tasmania spokesperson Rodney Croome said the organisation was “alarmed by repeated cases of abuse and violence against LGBTIQA+ people” and called for stronger policies and training…
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Women Speak Tasmania Calls for Consultation with Women on Transgender Prison Policy
Women Speak Tasmania has written to Attorney-General Guy Barnett expressing concern over the Tasmanian Department of Justice’s development of a Trans and Gender Diverse Prisoner Policy in consultation with its LGBTIQA+ Reference Group, but with no women’s organisations included as stakeholders. The group thanked the Attorney-General for his earlier correspondence of 12 March 2025, confirming…
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Consultation with Women on Transgender Prison Policy – Letter to the Attorney General
Letter sent to Tasmania AG Guy Barnett on 12 October 2025 Dear Attorney General Guy Barnett, We thank you for your letter of 12 March 2025 confirming that, for statistical purposes, data relating to rape crimes and victims is recorded according to sex, not gender. We note that the Department of Justice is developing a…
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ABC Bias in Terminology Used to Describe the Let Women Speak Rally – Letter to the ABC Ombudsman
Below is an email exchange between Anthony Johnson and the ABC Ombudsman’s office. Anthony contacted us to share his experience of ABC bias, which he thought might be of interest. Anthony wrote: “I have made two complaints to the ABC about the language used to describe the Let Women Speak rally, held in Melbourne 2023.…
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Thank you for agreeing to further consultation with women’s advocacy groups – Letter to Anna Cody
Letter sent to Anna Cody on the 07 October 2025 Dear Commissioner Cody, I watched your address to the National Press Club September 24 with great interest. Your response to the question from Women’s Advocate Megan Poore gave me hope that you will engage in open, earnest consultation with ordinary women, around the removal of…
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Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Refuses to Acknowledge Biological Sex
On 7 October 2025, during Senate Estimates (Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee), Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, was again pressed on women’s sex-based rights. What unfolded revealed a Commissioner unwilling – or unable – to acknowledge biological sex, even when asked the simplest of questions. First, in questioning by Senator Malcolm Roberts,…
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Women Betrayed: How Sex Self-ID Laws Put a Child Rapist in a Women’s Prison”
The Victorian government has done the unthinkable: a male who raped his own five-year-old daughter is serving his sentence in a women’s prison. His “gender identity” was treated not only as justification for placing him among vulnerable women, but also as a mitigating factor that reduced his jail term. This is not just a shocking…
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The Collapse of the Dutch Protocol: Why Puberty Blockers for Children Are Unnecessary
The so-called Dutch Protocol, first developed in the Netherlands in the 1990s, has been the foundation for prescribing puberty blockers to children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. For years, it was promoted internationally as a model of “best practice.” But the global picture today tells a very different story: one of growing restrictions, suspensions, and outright…
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Does Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Listen to Women?
At the National Press Club address on 24 September 2025, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Anna Cody, was asked a direct question by Dr Megan Poore of the Women’s Advocate about whether she would use her powers to ensure that women’s groups working for sex-based rights are meaningfully consulted in law and policy. CEDAW Article 7…
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Analysis of the Dentons Document: A How to Manual
In 2019, a guide produced by global law firm Dentons with activist partners revealed how trans rights were advanced across Europe. The strategy? Incremental reforms, political gatekeepers, friendly media, and avoiding open debate on controversial issues like children, prisons, and sport. Far from grassroots change, the document shows a carefully managed campaign designed to frame…