Tag: Conversion-Therapy
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The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
Prisha Mosley was 17 when she was first given testosterone on a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breast removed as a 16 year old on…
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Tasmanian Forum on Conversion Therapy Laws Highlights Free Speech and Debate
On November 23, 2022, the Free Speech Alliance Australia hosted a forum at Parliament House, Hobart, to discuss proposed Tasmanian laws banning conversion therapy. The event, supported by Liberal MP Lara Alexander, brought together experts, survivors, and concerned citizens to examine the risks, impacts, and consultation process surrounding the legislation. Forum convener Isla MacGregor welcomed…
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Conversion Therapy forum staged in Hobart
A forum in parliament to discuss a proposed ban on gender identity conversion therapy has heard that Tasmanians should be free to seek therapy, while a Sydney psychologist questioned the wisdom of allowing children to make their own choices in gender transition. The forum, which had been lambasted by Greens leader Cassy O’Connor as a…
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Tasmania Law Reform Institute – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Practices
Law Reform Options for Tasmania Question 1 After considering the background and working definition, in your opinion, what are and are not ‘sexual orientation and gender identity conversion practices’? The immediate problem with the Institute’s working definition of ‘sexual orientation and gender identity conversion practices’ – so-called SOGI conversion practices – is that ‘sexual orientation’…
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Call for Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to Rewrite Conversion Practices Issue Paper
Women Speak Tasmania have today contacted Dr Brendan Gogarty, Director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute requesting that the recently released Issues Paper ‘Conversion Practices: Law Reform Options for Tasmania’ be withdrawn and revised. https://www.utas.edu.au/law-reform/news-and-events/tlri-news/conversion-practices The decision yesterday in the UK High Court case of Keira Bell, Sue Evans and Mrs A regarding use of…