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Tag: gender identity

  • Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns police

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    Special rapporteur concerned third of British forces still take into account self-identified gender in violence cases against females Police forces that allow criminals to pick their own gender are the “biggest barrier to ending violence against women and girls”, a United Nations report has found. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur for violence against women and girls, said…

  • As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife

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    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…

  • Why the trans debacle matters

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    I first stuck my neck out on ‘trans’ nearly a decade ago, when a societal obsession with pretending to change sex was already going great guns. I’d been disturbed by this unhinged cultural preoccupation ever since documentaries about little boys in dresses started to glut our television schedules in 2012. I’m not proud of having…

  • Why did we need a court of law to tell us what a woman is?

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    No man, whether it’s a 6’5” bloke called Dave or a genderfluid lad who’s taken estrogen, will be legally treated as a woman in the UK. I’m glad this ruling has been made, but I’m bemused – and kind of scared – that we needed it. Why did we need a court of law to…

  • U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act

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    Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists. The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country’s equality legislation. The landmark judgment, which said that the legal…

  • Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinic

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    One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers. One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a…

  • Chronology of Devonport Library Forum cancellation

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    Correspondence between WST and Libraries Tasmania Emma Shaw, a member of WST, hired a room at the Devonport library to host a Forum called “Women’s Rights in the Modern World”. We were going to discuss how gender law reforms impact women and how the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination laws and the Federal Sex discrimination Act defines what…

  • Who is doing the fear-mongering?

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    Rodney Croome’s predictions about the Coalition rolling out a trans fear campaign and a looming culture war in the lead up to the coming federal election (Canberra Times 10 Jan 2025), tell us that many in the LGBTQA+ community are nervous about the implications of the US election on voter sentiment in Australia. While Rodney…

  • Age and Agency

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    The proposed federal social media minimum age legislation will prohibit children under 16 from accessing social media accounts, citing their increased vulnerability to platform-related harms. While the Act does not delve into the physiological basis basis for this vulnerability, it is well-establish that the emotional and impulsive limbic system is not fully tempered by the…

  • Human Rights relating to Women

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    By Sarah Kingsley United Nations Documents There is a range of legislation including international covenants and Australian law that governs human rights. The base document that outlines all human rights is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The most important relating specifically…