Tag: gender identity
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Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test
In the opinion piece “Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test”, Benjamin Seeder argues that Tasmania’s commitment to free speech would be tested by the planned visit of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan to Hobart. Seeder describes free speech as a foundational democratic right from which other freedoms flow and contends…
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Analysis of the Leak Files from The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
The internal emails reveal serious ethical, medical, and scientific concerns within WPATH itself. Far from presenting a unified, evidence-based standard of care, these exchanges show members openly acknowledging the lack of evidence, the risks to young people, and the fact that they are making things up as they go. 1. Acknowledgement of Lack of Evidence…
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Opinion: Rodney Croome: Will promoting hate achieve a win-win?
This opinion piece was written by Isla MacGregor in response to Rodney Croome’s article. It was rejected by the new editor of The Tasmanian Times I read Rodney Croome’s article ‘Turf War: What’s really Behind Recent Attacks on Trans Tasmanians‘ with considerable interest, most notably for the conspiratorial tone of his article and the lack…
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Request for Review: Denial of Lesbian Action Group’s Exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act – Letter to AHRC
We are sharing a letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission sent to us by a supporter of our page. The writer of this letter decided to communicate their concerns to the AHRC after seeing a letter on this page regarding the decision by the AHRC NOT to allow the Lesbian Action Group to hold…
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Opinion: Let Kids be Safe from Harmful Treatments
Anthony Haneveer’s editorial ‘Let kids be kept safe from ignorance’ (Examiner 14 June 2023) is a continuum of his attack on anyone who does not conform to the narrative being promoted by a small section of the queer community in Tasmania. His attack on LGB Tasmania exposes his very personal interest in this issue. Far…
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LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in Hobart
A war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state. LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for people under the age of 18, claimed it has booked another billboard in the Launceston…
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‘We have lost our child to this insidious ideology’
Amid a raging public battle, thousands of parents across Australia are privately struggling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out. It was a sunny weekend afternoon four years ago when Elizabeth discovered her 13-year-old daughter was binding her developing breasts with packing tape.…
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Policy on Biological Men Competing in Women’s Competition – Letter to AusCycling
Great letter to AusCycling from Hobart’s International cycling competitor Jodie Willett To whom it may concern, I have held a MTBA/Cycling Australia/AusCycling membership continuously since 2006 I believe. I have proudly represented my state and my country at cycling competitions worldwide. I recently declined to renew my membership primarily due to the UCI, and by…
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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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NSW Westmead Children’s Hospital Study points to urgent review of Tasmanian Gender Service Guidelines
Premier Jeremy Rockcliff needs to take urgent action on the findings of a study covered in The Australian today including on the front page Doctor scrutiny on gender clinic reveals legal, safety fears. The Tasmanian Gender Service has come under pressure from numerous groups in Tasmania in past years over its ‘affirmative only approach’, the…