Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Lawfare in Australia: Consequences for Gender-Critical Beliefs

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    Understanding the Conflict Between Gender Ideology and Gender-Critical Views In recent years, Australia has witnessed a growing number of complaints, tribunal proceedings, workplace disputes, regulatory actions, and court cases involving conflict between gender ideology and gender-critical beliefs. These disputes are not simply disagreements about personal identity. They raise broader questions about how society defines sex,…

  • AusPATH Activism Silences Evidence-Based Debate

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    In a troubling display of activism overriding scientific discourse, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has bowed to pressure from trans activist groups, including the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), effectively silencing a webinar by renowned Finnish expert Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala. Titled Medical Gender Reassignment Among Minors: Why Are We Cautious…

  • Challenges Doctors Face When Challenging Gender-Affirming Care

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    In the evolving landscape of youth gender medicine, a growing number of medical professionals are raising alarms about the rapid adoption of gender-affirming care models. These models, which emphasize affirming a child’s self-identified gender through social transition, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones, have come under scrutiny for lacking robust evidence and potentially causing long-term harm.…

  • Opinion: Culture of Fear, Surveillance and Social Breakdown

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    The most significant impacts of sex self-ID laws have become increasingly apparent with the breakdown in trust within families and of social cohesion in our communities. This corresponds to an increase in coercion for conformity to ‘group think’ and surveillance for ‘right think’ within our society at large on multiple issues. While many issues today…

  • From Founder to Dissenter: The Drew Hutton Greens Controversy

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    The suspension, expulsion, legal challenge, and reinstatement of Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton became a national flashpoint in debates over internal party democracy, transgender policy, and freedom of expression in pluralistic societies. Drew Hutton co-founded the Australian Greens in 1992 alongside Bob Brown. For decades he was regarded as part of the party’s founding generation…

  • New Federal “Hate” Laws Risk Silencing Women’s Advocacy

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    Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has lodged a formal submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security opposing the Exposure Draft Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026.  While WST unequivocally condemns antisemitism, religious hatred, violence and genuine extremism, our submission argues that the draft Bill is over-broad, poorly defined, and vulnerable to misuse,…

  • Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security – Draft: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026

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    1. Introduction Women Speak Tasmania (WST) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) regarding the Exposure Draft of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. WST is a volunteer-led, non-partisan women’s organisation based in Tasmania. We advocate for the protection of women’s sex-based…

  • Statement on Safety Concerns Regarding the Planned Counter-Protest at Parliament House

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    Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is holding its Youth Gender Distress Forum on 27 November 2025, inside the Parliament House Reception Room. Our event is a lawful, registered, peaceful forum focused on healthcare, safeguarding, and evidence-based discussion. In recent days, a group organising a counter-protest has circulated promotional material on Facebook using highly inflammatory, derogatory, and…

  • Protest Against Libraries Tasmania: Standing Up for Women’s Voices

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    On Sunday, 9 November, members of Women Speak Tasmania (WST) gathered outside the Hobart Library in Murray Street to protest Libraries Tasmania’s ongoing ban on hiring meeting rooms to our organisation. We organised the protest to coincide with the busy Farm Gate Market, ensuring our message would reach a wide cross-section of the community. This…

  • Women Protest Libraries Tasmania Ban

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    Women Speak Tasmania (WST) members are this morning protesting outside Hobart Library in Murray Street over Libraries Tasmania’s ban on hiring out community meeting facilities to our organisation. As reported by The Australian on 30 October 2025 (“Women’s group banned from Tasmanian libraries for ‘hate speech’”), WST has been permanently banned from hiring Libraries Tasmania…