Tag: gender ideology
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Don’t agree with trans ideology? UTAS will find a way to silence you
By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania On 6 August last, Tasmanian Times published an article titled ‘Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights Debate’ The article featured five case studies that exemplified the dominant narrative in this debate – supportive of the trans rights agenda and dismissive of a women’s rights…
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Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspective
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By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania In recent years, ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ have become a feature of anti-discrimination law in Australia at both the federal and state levels. Transgender rights proponents are now lobbying for radical changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas) that will enable…
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Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?
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By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania And what about the Mercury? In the last few months Tasmanian Times has published several articles on the transgender rights debate written by women from Women Speak Tasmania. Most of these articles were also sent out nationally as Media Releases. No mainstream media in Australia has…
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Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3
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By Isla MacGregor 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…
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Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1
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By Isla MacGregor Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The…
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WoLF submission to Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT) Option Paper
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in ResourcesBelow is Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) submission paper to Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT) Options Paper. Equal Opportunity Tasmania puts forward a proposal that would allow a person who is unambiguously male or female to change the sex marker on their Birth Certificate to indicate a sex that is not truthfully their sex.
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Trans Activists Trumped By Their Own Flawed Policies
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On the 20th October, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that student politician and Liberal MP staffer Alex Fitton had identified himself as a woman in order to win an executive position in a student election worth $12,000. A similar situation occurred within the University of Tasmania’s own student union and Women’s Collective in early 2015,…
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Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
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Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male sex, or the female sex? I’m not talking about people with personality traits that are wholly ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’, because no-one is a walking sex stereotype. I’m talking about physical sex. There are…