Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2026

  • How Gender Policy Is Costing Girls Their Sporting Future

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    Tasmania’s gender law reforms, which prioritise self-identification over biological sex, are having profound and often unintended consequences for women and girls. These policies grant immediate access to female-only sports, change rooms, toilets, and services based solely on declared gender identity, without safeguards or consideration of measurable physical differences between male and female bodies. While inclusion…

  • Tasmania’s Chief Psychiatrist Must Protect Kids from Irreversible Gender Treatments

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    Recent developments in Australia show that the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children and adolescents experiencing gender distress is under serious scrutiny. Tasmania now has an urgent responsibility to ensure that young people are protected from potential long-term harm. Queensland Raises Red Flags In Queensland, disclosures from the Queensland Children’s Gender Service…

  • A Witch Hunt in Burnie? The Campaign to Remove Trent Aitken

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    Burnie City Councillor Trent Aitken, known locally as the “Boy from Burnie,” has been at the centre of ongoing controversy since early 2025 following social media comments relating to gender identity and transgender issues. What began as a Facebook post evolved into formal complaints, petitions, widespread media coverage, political pressure, and ultimately a 14-day suspension…

  • Why are taxpayers funding endless queer propaganda through ABC? – Letter to Linton Besser from Media Watch

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    Letter sent to Linton Besser and Media Watch on 31 January 2026 Dear Linton,  The BBC has been criticised for its impartiality particularly regarding its promotion of gender and ‘queer’ ideology above the sex-based rights of women.  The ABC has for years been doing exactly the same- a slow drip feed of trans positive stories,…

  • Women Speak Tasmania claims discrimination over canned library forum

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    A decision to cancel a Women Speak Tasmania event at the Burnie Library has escalated into a bitter clash involving claims of political discrimination and the role of public libraries in hosting controversial views. The group is known for its contentious views on sex and gender, and says it was last year effectively and “permanently…

  • From Founder to Dissenter: The Drew Hutton Greens Controversy

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    The suspension, expulsion, legal challenge, and reinstatement of Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton became a national flashpoint in debates over internal party democracy, transgender policy, and freedom of expression in pluralistic societies. Drew Hutton co-founded the Australian Greens in 1992 alongside Bob Brown. For decades he was regarded as part of the party’s founding generation…

  • New Federal “Hate” Laws Risk Silencing Women’s Advocacy

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    Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has lodged a formal submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security opposing the Exposure Draft Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026.  While WST unequivocally condemns antisemitism, religious hatred, violence and genuine extremism, our submission argues that the draft Bill is over-broad, poorly defined, and vulnerable to misuse,…

  • Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security – Draft: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026

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    1. Introduction Women Speak Tasmania (WST) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) regarding the Exposure Draft of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. WST is a volunteer-led, non-partisan women’s organisation based in Tasmania. We advocate for the protection of women’s sex-based…

  • Teen Girls Access Double Mastectomies via Gender Clinic – Letter to Linton Besser/Media Watch

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    Letter sent to Linton Besser and Media Watch on 11 January 2026 Cc. Bernard Lane, Rachel Baxendale and Stephen Rice. Dear Media Watch/ Linton Besser, Western Australia gender clinic enables double mastectomies for teenage girls, secret document reveals, article by The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/western-australia-gender-clinic-enables-double-mastectomies-for-teenage-girls-secret-document-reveals/news-story/dbbf2c69dffa3a75c1f4e2f18cb97f2c I refer to the above article, about the medical scandal of teenagers…

  • Before Women Speak Tasmania: The Nordic Model Campaign Years (2012–2017)

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    Although Women Speak Tasmania was formally established in 2018, several founding members — including Isla MacGregor — had been actively engaged for years in advocacy relating to prostitution law reform, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. Much of this work occurred through collaboration with the Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) and international abolitionist networks. The period between…