Tag: Australia
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Feminist Groups Demand a Voice in the ALRC’s Review of Surrogacy Laws
As members of a coalition of independent feminist organisations from across Australia, we have jointly submitted our response to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) for its review of surrogacy laws. Our position is unequivocal: all forms of surrogacy constitute sex-based violence against women and girls and perpetuate systemic exploitation, and we maintain that only a universal…
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Amend the Sex Discrimination Act – Open Letter to the Australia Government
To whom it may concern, I am a woman and mother from Burnie, Tasmania. The Australian Labor Party has forsaken women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in favour of promoting and protecting a gender ideology that is actively damaging and harmful, not only to women and girls, but to children as a whole. The deliberate erasure…
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Judge’s ruling could rewrite nation’s gender medicine
Could it be that a judge – not a doctor – is about to change the face of gender medicine in Australia? Three significant Australian legal cases took out of the court’s hands the decision of whether a young person could be prescribed gender-affirming medicine. The Full Court in Re Jamie, in 2013, established parents…
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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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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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Does the gender-affirming model provide trans youth the healthcare they need? There are good reasons to think it doesn’t
Over the last 10 to 15 years, the number of children and adolescents seeking medical help for gender dysphoria has rapidly increased in Australia. In the context of uncertainty over how to respond to this phenomenon, the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents (ASOCTG) was developed by an interdisciplinary team of…
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Analysis of Gender Questioning Children and Family Law: An Evolving Landscape
Introduction This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced by the family law profession in Australia when dealing with matters involving gender identity in children and adolescents. Drawing on recent research, medical reviews, and legal precedents, it highlights the contested nature of gender-affirming approaches, the risks of medical intervention, and the crucial role of…
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Lost in Transition
Gender affirming care to treat children with dysphoria is discredited overseas yet routine here. Trans, by its nature, ia a world where appearances differ from reality. After years of the activist slogan that “trans women are women”, Britain’s highest court ruled in April that, under eqquality law, a woman is a biological female. In a…
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Holding MPs Accountable: Women Speak Tasmania Visits Electorate Offices
On 28 April, Women Speak Tasmania members took action in Hobart, visiting the electorate offices of our federal representatives ahead of the coming election. Our goal was simple: to see whether our elected officials are prepared to answer the most basic of questions—what is a woman? Holding Politicians Accountable We began at the office of…
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Artwork So-Over Trans Dogma
Artwork from So-Over Trans Dogma — available below for all advocacy needs. These pieces highlight the absurdities of gender ideology: from the confusion over defining what a woman is, to the reliance on sexist stereotypes to describe “gender identity,” to the exposure of trans privilege and many other contradictions. A wide selection is provided to…