Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: sex-based protections

  • What a Week! Reflections on Advocacy, Attacks, and Media Balance in Tasmania

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    Over the weekend, we at Women Speak Tasmania reflected on a very busy and, yes, quite exciting week. It started with a simple email to Tasmanian parliamentarians asking for “sex” to be properly restored and protected in the Anti-Discrimination Act. What followed was a pile-on of attacks on women advocating for sex-based rights. It began…

  • Opinion: Women Are Not “Anti-Trans” for Defending Sex-Based Rights

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    This week Women Speak Tasmania found itself discussed in Tasmania Parliament and labelled in media coverage as part of an “anti-transgender” campaign. The reason? We sent an email to Tasmanian parliamentarians inviting them to support the Women’s Pledge Australia and consider reforms to strengthen women’s sex-based protections under Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act. Women Speak Tasmania is…

  • Parliamentary Privilege Used Against Tasmanian Women

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    Yesterday in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, two MPs used parliamentary privilege to directly attack Women Speak Tasmania by name. Kristie Johnston MP (Independent, Clark) Independent MP Kristie Johnston again labelled Women Speak Tasmania an “anti-trans group” that promotes “division and hate”. She claimed we encourage threats of violence, and suggested that no member of…

  • Women Speak Tasmania Named in Tasmanian Parliament

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    “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Nicholas Klein Today in the Tasmanian Parliament during Question Time, Independent Member for Clark Kristie Johnston named Women Speak Tasmania and attacked our campaign. She accused us of wanting to “weaken Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act” and “allow discrimination against…

  • Tasmanian Women’s Health Funding Hijacked

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    It all started with a screenshot and a little curiosity. A follower sent Women Speak Tasmania a screenshot of the successful applicants for the Tasmanian Government’s LGBTIQA+ Grants Program 2025. One entry immediately stood out: Women’s Health Tasmania received $30,000 for a project titled “Re-defining Change: Menopause support for TGD People”. Our curiosity was instantly…

  • Michael Ferguson Meets Women Speak Tasmania on Sex Protections

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    Representatives from Women Speak Tasmania and LGB Alliance Australia met today with Michael Ferguson MP, Member for Bass, to discuss the urgent need to add biological sex as a protected attribute in Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. The delegation presented Mr Ferguson with a policy brief and a collection of Tasmanians’ testimonies detailing the harms caused…

  • Is AHPRA’s Registration of a Trans-Identified Male as Female Putting Patient Consent at Risk?

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    The recent registration of the trans-identified male Dr Beth Upton by Australia’s medical regulator has raised serious concerns among women across the country. The trans-identified male Dr Beth Upton, who began transitioning in 2022, is now working as an unaccredited emergency-medicine trainee under supervision at Port Macquarie Base Hospital and Kempsey District Hospital on the…

  • Regarding the Sex-Based Rights of Women and Girls in Tasmania – Letter to the Attorney General

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    Letter sent to Tasmania Attorney General Guy Barnett on the 16.04.26 Dear Attorney General, I write to you respectfully as an ordinary Tasmanian citizen, and as a member of the National Council of Women (Tasmanian branch), regarding a matter of public interest, namely the sex-based rights of women and girls. Specifically, I request that urgent…

  • Campaign Launch: Restoring Sex-Based Protections for Tasmanian Women and Girls

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    Women Speak Tasmania has officially launched our campaign to restore clear, sex-based protections for women and girls in Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. Currently, the Act protects “gender” and “gender identity” — but does not include a clear, standalone protection for biological sex (male and female). This creates legal uncertainty and risks undermining the spaces, services,…

  • Women Speak Tasmania met with Carlo Di Falco MP on Restoring Sex-Based Protections in Law

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    Women Speak Tasmania met with Member for Lyons, Carlo Di Falco, on Wednesday 8 April to discuss urgent reforms to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998, aimed at restoring clear, sex-based protections for women and girls. The meeting follows the organisation’s formal submission to the Attorney-General and growing public support through a statewide petition — “Fix Tasmania’s…