Tag: politics
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Open and Frank Discussions only way Forward Regarding Gender Law Reforms
Conflict on the topic of gender makes the need for full debate all the more pressing, write Isla MacGregor, Jessica Hoyle and Rebecca Crossin MANY people, especially feminists, have been excluded from commenting or taking part in consultations over the gender law reforms and their impacts on sex-based rights. We have also been vilified and…
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Discrimination complaint over transgender, female changerooms remarks against senator dropped
A discrimination complaint against Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler over her comments on female change rooms and transgender women has been dropped. A discrimination complaint against Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler over her comments on female change rooms and transgender women has been dropped. The complainant contacted Equal Opportunity Tasmania today to withdraw the complaint, after a…
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Andrew Wilkie Office Ban Spurs Transgender Row
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has banned a women’s group from office facilities made available to community organisations because of its “exclusionary” views on transgender issues. The federal member for Clark allows community groups to use his taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. Until recently this included feminist group Women Speak Tasmania. WST has in recent years…
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MP whose ex-wife is now a man bans women’s group from using an office because it holds ‘trans-exclusionary’ views
A feminist group has been banned from using free office facilities normally available to community organisations because Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said it holds ‘trans-exlusionary’ views. Andrew Wilkie has banned Women Speak Tasmania from using taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. The federal member for Clark said his sensitivity about the issue has been heightened because…
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Request to Include Protections for Females on the Grounds of Biological ‘sex’ in the Anti-Discrimination Act – Letter to Elise Archer
WST representatives sent a letter to Tasmania Attorney General Elise Archer requesting to include protections for females on the grounds of biological ‘sex’ in the Anti-Discrimination Act Dear Attorney General Elise Archer, We are writing to formally request that the Government consider drafting a bill for amendment of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) to include…
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State Government wants time to consider ‘dog’s breakfast’ Tasmania gender law
HISTORIC changes to transgender laws have been passed by the Tasmanian parliament after Liberal Speaker Sue Hickey repeatedly crossed the floor to support Labor and the Greens. The laws mean the recording of a child’s gender on their birth certificate will be optional, that people over 16 will be able to change their gender by…
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Transforming Tasmania Cries Foul over Poll Results
The EMRS poll results released yesterday indicate the majority of Tasmanians do not support changes to the state’s birth registration process proposed by Labor and the Greens. The changes were passed as amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 by our parliament’s Lower House in November last year. In March they…
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Investigation into Former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks
Women Speak Tasmania is disappointed that Anti-discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt has referred our complaint against former Anti-discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks to the Ombudsman for investigation. We submitted our complaint against Robin Banks when our organisation was no-platformed last year at a public forum in Human Rights Week organised by the Women’s International League for Peace…
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Cassy O’Connor and Rebecca White must Explain How Sex Self-ID will Impact Women’s Human Rights?
Campaign group Women Speak Tasmania is calling on Greens’ leader Cassy O’Connor and Opposition leader Rebecca White to clarify how sex self-ID will impact the human rights of women and girls. Labor and the Greens bulldozed amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, and the Anti-discrimination Act, through the Tasmanian Lower House last…
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Robin Banks Attempts to No-Platform Women Speak Tasmania
Women Speak Tasmania is scheduled to speak at a Human Rights Week event for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) on 12 December next. On 30 November, former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, emailed WILPF with the following … Ms Banks’ statements clearly amount to vilification of the Women Speak Tasmania speakers, and…