Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: politics

  • United Kingdom’s ban on puberty blockers for children is not a culture war but a safety matter

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    Yet again, Australia’s health ministers and officials have been warned about puberty blockers, the drugs given to minors who reject their birth sex and want the “wrong puberty” to be chemically suppressed. The typical response from our gender medicine lobby, and their social justice backers in politics, is that any scepticism about standards of evidence…

  • Analysis of Transgender Athlete Policies in Sport: Balancing Fairness and Inclusion

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    Fundamental Disjunction in Policy Approaches This analysis highlights a central divide in global sports policies: the tension between trans inclusivity and ensuring a level playing field for female athletes. Historically, many sports organisations assumed that testosterone suppression would adequately mitigate the performance advantage of male-to-female transgender athletes. Guidelines often specified testosterone thresholds as a measure…

  • Restoring Biological Reality in Tasmanian Law: Ivan Dean’s Amendments

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    The Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 – Amendments by Ivan Dean aimed to roll back Tasmania’s radical gender reforms and restore clarity, honesty, and fairness in law. What the Amendments Do Why This Matters Tasmania’s gender reforms replaced biological truth with ideology, leaving women and children vulnerable: Dean’s amendments restore common sense…

  • Ivan Dean Bill – Alternate Bill for Gender Reforms

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    Purpose of the Amendments The proposed amendments sought to roll back aspects of Tasmania’s gender law reforms by narrowing definitions and replacing “gender” with “biological sex” throughout relevant legislation. Key Changes Proposed Implications In short: Ivan Dean’s amendments aimed to undo much of Tasmania’s 2018 gender reforms by removing legal recognition of “gender identity” and…

  • Inquiry into Discrimination and Bullying in Tasmanian Schools

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    Dear Committee Members, Women Speak Tasmania is a non profit organization advocating for women and young girls rights in the state of Tasmania, we welcome the government Inquiry into Discrimination And Bullying in Tasmanian schools. We want to use this opportunity to inform you that recently WST was alerted to the content of a program…

  • Education Minister Jo Palmer should axe Political Lobby Group’s Teacher Training Program– Leaked Documents.

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    Women Speak Tasmania have called on the Minister for Education Jo Palmer to immediately axe a teacher training program being delivered to all Primary and Secondary Teachers by political lobby group Working It Out on behalf of the Department of Education, Children and Young People. ‘Leaked documents show the training program “Supporting Sexuality, Sex and…

  • Push for Parliamentary Inquiry into Sex Self ID Laws following Olympics Fiasco

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    In the last few days the world has been witness to the disastrous result that sex self ID laws have had on women’s sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has failed to protect female athletes by allowing men who identify as women, whether intersex or transgender, to compete against women. Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor said…

  • Federal Inquiry into Gender Clinics – Letter to Federal Health Minister Mark Butler

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    Dear Federal Health Minister Mark Butler, We are a grassroots organization in Tasmania advocating for women’s sex based rights and pushing back against gender ideology. Our latest campaign called upon the Tasmanian State Government to hold an inquiry into Tasmanian gender clinics. Please see attached the letter we received from Tasmanian Health Minister Hon Guy…

  • Calls for Commonwealth Inquiry into Gender Clinics

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    In response to WST correspondence with Health Minister Guy Barnett, we are pleased that the Tasmanian Liberal Government is the first Government in Australia to back a Commonwealth inquiry into gender clinics and their guidelines in response to release of England’s groundbreaking Cass Review. Spokesperson Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor said, ‘While our initial request to…

  • Inquiring mind

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    Tasmania’s Liberal government has become the first Australian administration to recommend a national review of public gender services for minors. The island state’s Health Minister, Guy Barnett, who is also Attorney-General, said he had written to his federal counterpart—Australia’s Labor Party Health Minister, Mark Butler—to ask him to consider the idea. On Thursday, Mr Barnett…