Tag: safeguarding children
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Associated Risks with Current Gender Affirming Care Model – Letter to Jacquie Petrusma
Dear Minister Jacquie Petrusma, Re: Request for meeting to discuss the risks associated with the current gender-affirming care model for children in Tasmania. I am writing to you in light of recent developments regarding the use of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. As you may know, the UK government recently made its ban…
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Comments on the Tasmanian DECYP Respectful Relationships Education Foundation–Year 6
The Tasmanian Department of Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) has developed a Respectful Relationships Education package for children from Foundation through Year 6. On first glance, the program looks positive—focusing on kindness, empathy, inclusion and teaching children how to stay safe. But a closer reading reveals some worrying gaps in safeguarding, and creeping use…
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A Critique of Welcome to Sex: Why This Book is Inappropriate for Children
The publication of Welcome to Sex has sparked controversy across Australia, and with good reason. Marketed as a “fun and inclusive” guide for young people, the book has been placed in the children’s and young teen sections of major bookstores. Yet, on closer inspection, it is clear that the material is graphic, sexualising, and wholly…
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Leaked Training Materials: A Closer Look
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has uncovered concerning information regarding the content of teacher training programs delivered in Tasmanian schools. These programs, provided by the Department for Education, Children and Young People in collaboration with the political lobby group Working It Out, raise significant concerns about the rights and safety of women and girls in educational…
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Tasmanian Department of Children and Young People, the Respectful Relationships Education Teaching and Learning Packages 2024 – Letter to Claire Chandler
Dear Senator Chandler, I’m bringing to your urgent attention, and asking as a parent and educator, that you would please review and amend the written material contained in the newly launched Tasmanian Department of Children and Young People, the Respectful Relationships packages, particularly, the Early Years Package(RR), Respectful Relationships and Consent in the Early Years.…
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Safeguarding Children in Tasmanian Schools: The Urgent Need for Reform
Recently members of Women Speak Tasmania wrote a letter to Tasmanian Education Minister, Jo Palmer, to make her aware to the increasing risks posed to children in Tasmanian schools by the teaching and implementation of gender ideology. Recent policies and practices have highlighted serious gaps in both child safety and current anti-discrimination legislation, leaving young…
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Sex rights group LGB Tasmania has called for a boycott of Target
Sex rights group LGB Tasmania is to stage a protest outside Launceston Target on Saturday, calling for a boycott of the store until it removes copies of controversial children’s book Welcome to Sex, by Yumi Stynes and Dr Melissa Kang. LGB Tasmania spokesperson Jessica Hoyle said the book, which is being sold by Target, “sends…
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Tasmania’s Department of Education Tells Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report
In July 2023, Tasmanian schools received an important report: Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools by Policy Exchange. The report highlighted serious safeguarding failures in UK schools, where contested gender ideology has been allowed to override long-established child protection principles. Safeguarding Children in Schools Australia (SCISA) distributed this…
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Who Speaks for Children? Commissioner Called to Support Gender Service Inquiry
In August 2022, Women Speak Tasmania wrote to Leanne McLean, Tasmania’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, calling for an independent inquiry into the treatment model being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service. This request followed the high-profile closure of England’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service, after an ongoing review by Dr Hillary Cass found the…
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Call for Children’s Commissioner to Conduct Inquiry into Tasmanian Gender Service following closure of Tavistock
Women Speak Tasmania have written to the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner urging her to establish an independent inquiry into the current “gender affirmation” model of treatment being used by the Tasmanian Gender Service for the treatment of minors struggling with gender dysphoria. WST wrote to Leanne Mclean to advise her of the recently announced closure of…