Women Speak Tasmania

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  • 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…

  • School principal issues trans warning for sport

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    Women’s sport is under threat from transgender athletes who identify as women but compete with “the steroidal power” of male biology, says headmaster Tony George of Sydney’s King’s School for boys. “People with Y chromosomes have a natural source of steroids — these people are commonly known as men, and they have much more testosterone…

  • A Response to the Guardian Article on Trans Medicine for Children – Email to Josh Taylor

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    Bronwyn Williams replies to the Guardian journalist, Josh Taylor, who wrote the article “How children became the target in a rightwing culture war over gender” Dear Mr Taylor, Unfortunately comments were closed on the above article by the time I read it today. So, email it is. It’s interesting, Josh, that you apparently endorse the…

  • Federal Government Review of Trans Medicine for Children and Adolescents: A Welcome Sign

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    Women Speak Tasmania has welcomed the national inquiry announced last Friday by Greg Hunt, Federal Minister for Health, into the ethics of medical and surgical interventions offered to children and adolescents presenting at gender clinics and services. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘Women Speak Tasmania fully endorses the submissions made to the Royal Australasian College of…

  • Trans and Gender Diverse Guidelines in Sport – the End for Women’s Competitions?

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    The Australian Human Rights Commission this week released its ‘Guidelines for Inclusion of Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Sport’. The guidelines are the result of a collaboration between the AHRC, Sport Australia and the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS) in consultation with governments, player associations, legal advisers and athletes. The guidelines…

  • 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…