Tag: Australia
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Women’s Pledge Australia
In 2025, Women Speak Tasmania launched Women’s Pledge Australia, a concrete commitment to preserve sex-based legal protections, defend female-only spaces, and safeguard evidence-based public policy. This pledge has been signed by numerous federal, state and local government politicians and election candidates. It outlines key promises—such as opposing the medicalisation of minors, preserving female sports fairness,…
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Australian Feminists Unite for Shadow Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Our coalition of independent feminist organisations has submitted its shadow report to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of Australia’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR). In doing so we warn that recent laws and policies are undermining women’s sex-based rights, breaching obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination…
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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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Conservative teachers demand an end to gender ideology in schools
Conservative teachers have taken a definitive stance on the transgender issue: they’re demanding an end to what they believe to be child abuse. New research has revealed that 91 per cent of educators believe transgender ideology should not be taught in schools. The landmark member survey conducted by the Teachers’ Professional Association of Australia (TPAA) revealed that transgender ideology…
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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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Two transgender netball players banned from playing in Riddell District Netball Football League
Two transgender netball players have been banned from competing in a major community Melbourne netball league, the decision coming after a video emerged of a smaller female opponent being knocked over at a weekend match. Two transgender players have been banned from competing in a major community netball league due to their “superior stamina and…
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One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is probing whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female players
Netball Victoria has engaged an independent expert to review possible on-court safety risks after a club in Melbourne’s outer north said it was worried about the size and strength of transgender players. One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is investigating whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female players. Netball Victoria has launched…
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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…