Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: gender identity

  • Doubts about Tasmanian Law Reform Institute Impartiality 

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    Women Speak Tasmania is calling on the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to co-sponsor a forum dedicated to providing a women’s rights perspective on transgender law reform proposals. ‘Women Speak Tasmania is developing a series of policies addressing a range of issues in the transgender rights debate.  Two of those policies, dealing with anti-discrimination law and…

  • Transgender Law Reform – Women Speak the Truth

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    While several groups and individuals are lobbying for extended transgender rights at law, Women Speak Tasmania is working on a comprehensive series of policies to address changes in the law that have promoted the rights of transgender persons ahead of the sex-based rights of women. “We have drafted two policy position papers, initially, that consider…

  • Opposition Grows Against Transgender Rights Campaign

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    Newly formed group Women Speak Tasmania, are ramping up their campaign to oppose reforms proposed by transgender lobby group Transforming  Tasmania. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘We are talking with many people in the Tasmanian community, especially women, who are shocked at the loss of safe women only services in Tasmania and the threats suggested by…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3

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    Part Three. “I am not a Woman” – Transsexuals and Transgender Women Speak Out Today, the dominant discourse in the transgender rights debate insists that transgender women are ‘women’. It is not uncommon to hear the argument that, because they are women, their biology is female and it is ‘transphobic’ to suggest they are biological…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2

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    Part Two. The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal from participation, censorship, bullying, threats, intimidation, silencing, stonewalling and expulsion from groups for those who express dissent from the ‘popular’ transgender narrative. The following Tasmanian case studies outline examples of trans rights crusaders and their ideological supporters apparently acting in a manner inconsistent with…

  • Analysis of The Sex Discrimination Act Amendment 2013 – Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status

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    Key Amendments Introduced The 2013 amendment substantially expanded the Sex Discrimination Act 1984. The main changes are: Redefinitions (or Removals) How This Changed the Original 1984 Act Impacts on Women Comparison of Sex Discrimination Act: Before vs After 2013 Amendments Area Before 2013 (Original Act) After 2013 Amendments Practical Effect for Women Definitions of Sex,…