Tag: prison
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Women Speak Tasmania Welcomes Northern Territory Leadership on Prison Safety
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) congratulates Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro for her decisive action to ban transgender women who are born male from being housed in women’s prisons. This landmark policy prioritises the safety, dignity, and fundamental rights of women in custody. Chief Minister Finocchiaro’s statement that “there should be no men in women’s…
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Why Women’s Safety Must Be Central to Tasmania’s Prison Policy
Equality Tasmania welcomed the Custodial Inspector’s concern about the safety of LGBTIQA+ prisoners, following reports of assaults against gay men in Tasmanian prisons. In a December 2024 statement, Equality Tasmania spokesperson Rodney Croome said the organisation was “alarmed by repeated cases of abuse and violence against LGBTIQA+ people” and called for stronger policies and training…
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Women Speak Tasmania Calls for Consultation with Women on Transgender Prison Policy
Women Speak Tasmania has written to Attorney-General Guy Barnett expressing concern over the Tasmanian Department of Justice’s development of a Trans and Gender Diverse Prisoner Policy in consultation with its LGBTIQA+ Reference Group, but with no women’s organisations included as stakeholders. The group thanked the Attorney-General for his earlier correspondence of 12 March 2025, confirming…
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Consultation with Women on Transgender Prison Policy – Letter to the Attorney General
Letter sent to Tasmania AG Guy Barnett on 12 October 2025 Dear Attorney General Guy Barnett, We thank you for your letter of 12 March 2025 confirming that, for statistical purposes, data relating to rape crimes and victims is recorded according to sex, not gender. We note that the Department of Justice is developing a…
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Women Betrayed: How Sex Self-ID Laws Put a Child Rapist in a Women’s Prison”
The Victorian government has done the unthinkable: a male who raped his own five-year-old daughter is serving his sentence in a women’s prison. His “gender identity” was treated not only as justification for placing him among vulnerable women, but also as a mitigating factor that reduced his jail term. This is not just a shocking…
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Get the Men Out: Protest by Women Prisoners
I was talking with this bloke about men-who-say-they’re-women (hereinafter MWSTWs) being housed in women’s prisons and he said to me: ‘It may well be that women prisoners don’t normally see it as a big problem and can deal with it just as other bullies, or male guards. They turn their backs on them or bash…