Tag: 2026
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Request for Transparency and Meaningful Consultation on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 – Email to Tasmania MPs
Email to the Members of the Tasmanian Parliament, dated 19 August 2026 Dear Members of the Tasmanian Parliament, As the period for submissions on the Greens’ Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 has now closed, we write to draw your attention to a serious concern regarding transparency. We have been in contact with a number of…
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Request for review of Tasmanian Gender Service clinical pathways following new questions concerning WPATH guidance – Email to Bridget Archer
Email to the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Bridget Archer, dated 16 August 2026 Dear Minister Archer, I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to ask you to reconsider the clinical governance and guidelines underpinning the Tasmanian Gender Service (TGS), following new developments concerning the evidentiary basis of guidance issued by the World Professional…
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Use of “androgen deficiency / testicular disorder” PBS indication potentially fraudulent coding for paediatric gender medicine – Email to Senator Chandler
Email sent to Senator Claire Chandler on 18 August 2026 Dear Senator Chandler, I am writing to draw your attention to the recently released United States Department of Health and Human Services report Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”, and to the clear parallel…
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Tasmania should review gender-care pathways as questions grow over WPATH evidence base
Women Speak Tasmania is calling on the Tasmanian Government to review the clinical pathways used by the Tasmanian Gender Service after new reporting about the evidentiary basis of WPATH guidance. According to The Australian on 15 August, lawyers for WPATH told a US court that statements in its Standards of Care are “opinions about what…
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Is Tasmania Acting Too Late to Protect Children?
Women Speak Tasmania raised serious questions with the Tasmanian Government in May about clinical governance, evidence and safeguards in the provision of puberty suppression and gender-affirming hormones to patients under 18. Three months later, new developments have made those questions more urgent. When governments are responsible for the care of children, waiting for greater certainty…
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Request for formal review of Year 7–10 Respectful Relationships and Consent Education materials – Email to Jo Palmer
Email sent to Minister for Education Jo Palmer and Attorney-General Guy Barnett on 24 July 2026. Dear Attorney-General and Minister Palmer, We write to formally request that the Tasmanian Government conduct a thorough and transparent review of the content and delivery of Respectful Relationships and Consent Education, and related Health and Physical Education material, currently…
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“This Is a Legal War”: Sall Grover Leads Call to Restore Women’s Sex-Based Rights in Adelaide
On Saturday 25 July 2026, hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide to call for the restoration of women’s sex-based rights. Despite the threat of rain, women, men, parents, students and parliamentarians stood together under the banner “Fix the Act!.” The Adelaide rally was organised by Women’s Forum Australia and formed part…
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Greens’ Conversion Practices Bill 2026: Our Position
The Tasmanian Greens have released a consultation draft of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026. The Bill proposes to ban practices that seek to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It creates new criminal offences, gives significant powers to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, and allows any person to make a report. Our…
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Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 – Email sent to Members of the Tasmanian Parliament
Email sent to Members of the Tasmanian Parliament on 27 July 2026 Dear Member of Parliament, I am writing on behalf of Women’s Speak Tasmania to provide you with our submission on the consultation draft of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026, which has been released by the Tasmanian Greens. The formal submission has been…
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Women Speak Tasmania calls for gender identity to be removed from Conversion Practices Bill
Women Speak Tasmania has lodged a formal submission on the Tasmanian Greens’ Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 and provided copies to every Member of the Tasmanian Parliament. The organisation supports a targeted prohibition on conversion practices directed at sexual orientation but strongly opposes the inclusion of gender identity within the same legislative framework. The submission…