Tag: Family Planning GUP
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Transparency in Relationships and Sexuality Education – Letter to the Children’s Commissioner
Letter sent to the Interim Children’s Commissioner, Ms Isabelle Crompton on 26.03.26 Dear Ms Crompton, Subject: Concerns regarding transparency and parental engagement in Relationships and Sexuality Education programs in Tasmanian schools I am writing on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to raise concerns about a potential systemic issue affecting student wellbeing and parental engagement in…
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Why Parents are Kept in the Dark About Tasmania School Programs
What we learnt from RTI Request 076–2025/26 Working It Out and Growing Up Program Parents have a right to know what their children are being taught at school—especially when lessons touch on sensitive topics such as sexuality, gender identity, and personal development. A recent Right to Information (RTI) request has raised serious questions about whether…
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Dr Russell from Equality Tasmania Is Pushing Harmful Myths
It is not a “harmful myth,” Dr Russell, that Tasmanian children are being taught that boys can have a vagina, girls can have a penis, and that a person can “feel like a boy inside” even if they were assigned female at birth. This wording is taken directly from Tasmanian Government policy and from materials…
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Secrecy rules as children taught ‘gender ideology’
Children are being taught “gender identity ideology’ in Tasmanian primary schools without the knowledge or consent of parents, with one mother revealing her daughter – who had undertaken the sex education program over a period of six years – now identifies as a boy. The mother, a qualified teacher herself, told The Australian how her…
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Government Funding and Lack of Accountability in Family Planning Tasmania’s “Growing Up Program” – Letter to Eric Abetz
Dear Minister Abetz, Re: Government Funding and Lack of Accountability in Family Planning Tasmania’s “Growing Up Program” I write on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to express grave concern over the ongoing public funding of Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) and the organisation’s failure to uphold basic principles of transparency, accountability, and child safeguarding in its…
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Urgent Review of Family Planning Tasmania’s “Growing Up Program” in Schools – Letter to Jo Palmer
Letter sent to Jo Palmer on the 23.10.25 Dear Minister Jo Palmer, Re: Urgent Review of Family Planning Tasmania’s “Growing Up Program” in Schools I am writing to raise serious concerns about the content and delivery of Family Planning Tasmania’s Growing Up Program (GUP), currently being taught in Tasmanian schools. Multiple parents have come forward…
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Behind Closed Doors: Family Planning Tasmania and the Hidden Curriculum
This is a quick summary of the blog post titled ‘Keeping Secrets from Parents: Family Planning Tasmania is an Active Participant.’ We have also included a downloadable word document containing all the important questions parents should ask. What it’s about: The post raises serious concerns about Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) and its “Growing Up Program” (GUP) delivered…
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Concerns About the Growing Up Program (GUP) in Tasmanian Schools – Parents Speak Up
Women Speak Tasmania has received a number of messages from parents across the state expressing concern about the Growing Up Program (GUP), which is delivered by Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) in public schools. Parents have raised issues relating to transparency, the language used in teaching materials, and the implicit introduction of gender identity concepts to…
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Are the Gender Whisperers in Tas Schools?
Women Speak Tasmania are challenging both Premier Jeremy Rockliff and Education Minister Jo Palmer to come clean on whether they approve of government-funded materials teaching contested notions of ‘gender’ in the state’s schools and apparently being withheld from Tasmanian parents. As we reported recently, the Victorian state Department of Education has a secretive policy of encouraging…