Tag: censorship
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Pamphlet “Libraries Tas: Free Speech NOT Here”
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has launched a campaign to expose Libraries Tasmania’s ban on our community meetings — a decision that prevents open discussion on safeguarding children, evidence-based healthcare, and women’s sex-based rights. As reported by The Australian (30 October 2025), this new “hate speech vetting” policy is silencing Tasmanians who simply wish to talk…
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Concerns Regarding Tasmanian Government’s Recent Decision to Ban Women Speak Tasmania from using Public Libraries – Letter to Tasmanian Attorney General
Dear Attorney General, I’m writing to you about the Tasmanian Government’s recent decision to ban Women Speak Tasmania from using public libraries. According to an article in The Australian the women’s rights group has been blocked multiple times from booking meeting rooms because their discussions about gender policies in schools supposedly breach Diversity and Inclusion…
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Concern Regarding the Exclusion of Women Speak Tasmania from Public Library Facilities – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney-General, I am writing to express my concern about the recent decision to prevent Women Speak Tasmania from holding a meeting in a Tasmanian public library. This group represents women peacefully advocating for the protection and restoration of sex-based rights. Many Australian women are deeply concerned that gender self-identification laws have eroded important rights relating to…
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Institutional Capitulation: How a Melbourne Council Cancelled Helen Joyce
The City of Melbourne’s cancellation of a women’s rights forum featuring Helen Joyce stands as a stark warning about the fragility of free speech in Australia. What was intended to be a private, ticketed discussion on the impacts of gender identity ideology on women and children instead became a textbook case of institutional capitulation to…
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Women’s group banned from Tasmanian libraries for ‘hate speech’
A prominent women’s rights group has been permanently banned from public libraries in Tasmania after its forums opposing radical trans ideology were deemed to be in breach of Libraries Tasmania’s diversity and inclusion policies. Attempts by Women Speak Tasmania to hire library venues have been repeatedly turned down, most recently this week after a bid…
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Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney General Guy Barnett, Re: Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines I’m writing to raise serious concerns regarding freedom of speech and political belief in the application of new Libraries Tasmania venue guidelines. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has recently been informed that Libraries Tasmania is now vetting community organisations…
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Analysis of the Inclusive Language Guidelines – Tasmania DECYP
Tasmania Department for Education, Children and Young People 1. Purpose & Scope 2. What the Guidelines Require / Promote 2.1 Emphasis on Affirmation & Identity 2.2 Strong Norms About “Language to Avoid” 2.3 Use of Neutral Language / Avoiding Gendered Forms 3. Areas of Tension or Potential Overreach (“Compelled Speech” Concerns) While the document frames…
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Gender Ideology and Cult Behaviour
Does gender ideology exhibit cult-like behaviour? According to Steven Hassan’s BITE model of mind control, destructive cults exert control through four key components: Behaviour, Information, Thought, and Emotion. When a group successfully controls one or more of these components, the others are likely to follow, reinforcing the system of influence. When examined against these four…
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I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends
As a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position I am a human rights lawyer and professor at King’s College London. Until 2018, I supported all the demands of the transgender-rights movement. But since then, I have changed my mind. Why? Because I finally…
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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…