Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Analysis from the AIHW Report “Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia” 

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    Summary of Contents The report presents comprehensive data on family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) in Australia, covering prevalence, demographics, impacts, and service responses. It draws on police records, hospitalisations, victimisation surveys, and specialist support services. Key themes: Relevant Statistics on Sexual Assault Women & Girls Men & Boys Children & Adolescents Key Takeaways Australian…

  • Analysis of Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act 1987 (as compiled to 2018)

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    What the Act Is About This law requires certain Commonwealth authorities (public bodies and government-owned corporations with 40+ employees) to develop and implement Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) programs. Its purpose is to ensure women and other designated groups have fair access to employment, free from discrimination. Key Definitions (relevant to women) How the Act Works…

  • Book: Gender Dysphoria In Children And Young People

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    Overview of the Book Title: Gender Dysphoria in Children and Young People: Collected Papers on the Psychology, Sociology and Ethics of Gender TransitionAuthor: Dr. Dianna T. Kenny, PhD — a Professor of Psychology (formerly at the University of Sydney), clinician, psychotherapist, and expert in child and adolescent mental health. Publication Date: February 28, 2020Publisher: Scholars’…

  • Recognising Service to Free Speech

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    For International Human Rights Day this year Women Speak Tasmania are recognising two outstanding Tasmanians for their contribution to Freedom of Speech.   Freedom of speech underpins all human rights. “On International Human Rights Day we want to recognise the contribution of Anne Warburton and Alderman Jeff Briscoe who have defended women’s rights to express…

  • Push on Politicians to Back Federal Child Trans Health Inquiry 

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    Women Speak Tasmania has recently backed calls for a federal parliamentary inquiry into the models of care, including medical and surgical interventions, currently being offered to children and young people presenting at gender services in Australia.  The ‘gender affirming’ approach adopted by such as the Gender Clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for Children has…

  • Protest and Boycott Call Over Girl Guides Australia’s Trans Inclusion Policy

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    On October 11, 2018, Women Speak Tasmania held a street protest calling for a boycott of Girl Guides Australia (GGA). The protest coincided with International Day of the Girl Child and raised concerns about the organisation’s policy change allowing male-bodied people who identify as female to join as members and leaders. WST argued that this…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1

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    Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The media has an…

  • Gender Clinics Under Fire Over Policies and Research

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    Gender clinics in Australia and the UK are coming under fire from doctors and academics. ‘Doctors and academics are blowing the whistle on poor guidelines, lack of evidence-based research, and lack of transparency about research on the outcomes for children and young people being treated for gender dysphoria’, said Women Speak Tasmania spokesperson, Bronwyn Williams.…

  • Funding Cuts to Scarlet Alliance: Michael Keenan Gets it Right …

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    I can only congratulate Justice Minister Michael Keenan for not allocating funding to the Scarlet Alliance in the 2017/18 round of funding to NGOs for combating sex trafficking and slavery in Australia. In February, March and April this year I was a co-signatory of a group of concerned womens’ human rights campaigners who wrote to…

  • It’s Bad News from New Zealand’s Survivors …

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    Survivors from the sex trade in New Zealand are speaking out about the tragic failure of decriminalisation aimed at preventing harms to prostituted women and girls from sex buyers and pimps but here in Tasmania Young Labor and many in the Union movement don’t want to hear their voices. The Scarlet Alliance ramped up their…