Tag: Sex Self-ID
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Protest Over Planned Transgender Laws
FEMINISTS opposed to proposed laws that would allow parents to choose whether their child’s sex was displayed on their birth certificate yesterday called for more community consultation before the Tasmanian Upper House votes on the Bill. The Legislative Council is expected to vote on legislation that would change laws in favour of transgender Tasmanians when…
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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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A Response to Ruth Forrest on Self-ID and Birth Registration Changes – Letter to Ruth Forrest
Bronwyn Williams letter to Ruth Forrest in regards to her article in the Mercury on the 19th of December titled: “Politics of fear and prejudice” Dear Ruth, I refer to the opinion piece published under your name in the Mercury newspaper on 19 December 2018, titled ‘Politics of fear and prejudice’. In this article you…
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Lifting the Lid on the Fundamentalist Trans Rights Lobby’s Bag of Dirty Tryx in Tasmania
During Human Rights Week in Tasmania, Women Speak Tasmania representatives Isla MacGregor and Bronwyn Williams were invited to speak at a forum organised by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Shortly before the scheduled date, the event was cancelled by the organisers following public controversy surrounding the topic of transgender law reform.…
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Good Governance Prevails as Debate on Trans Law Reform is Deferred
After two weeks of intense discussion and briefings, the Legislative Council has deferred debate on the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 until March 2019. ‘The amendments to the bill put forward by Labor and the Greens and passed with the support of Speaker, Sue Hickey, in the Lower House had several drafting…
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Birth Certificate Changes … Caution Isn’t Wilful Ignorance
If you’re one of the many Tasmanians concerned about Labor and the Greens changes to our state’s birth registration and anti-discrimination laws you are, according to Anthony Haneveer (the Advocate 23 November 2018), a wilfully ignorant bigot. If you don’t think 14 pages of complex amendments to a simple procedural bill are just ‘a little change to…
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Nature such a reassuring obstacle to opting gender
There is no greater strain on the bounds of credulity than the claim that biological fact is a fiction and birth sex doesn’t exist. In the topsy-turvy world of transgender politics, nature is an obstacle to the fabulous fiction that a man is a woman if he feels so inclined. Instead of countering the…
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Fears over impact of Tasmanian gender laws on schools and women’s services
Tasmania’s sweeping transgender laws threaten to unleash a “Pandora’s box” of implications for gender-based schools and women’s services, and could undermine legal protections for religious ministers. As well as default gender-free birth certificates, the wide-ranging changes, passed by the state’s lower house on Tuesday night, allow anyone aged 16 or older to change their gender…
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Women Call for Parliamentary Inquiry into Transgender Law Reforms
Women Speak Tasmania briefed honourable members of the Legislative Council today, offering our perspective on Labor and the Greens’ proposed amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018. ‘We outlined the very real negative impacts on the rights of female persons to safe, female-only spaces if biological male persons are able to become…
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Labor and the Greens ‘Win’, But Democracy Loses
When we go to the ballot box and vote, we have an expectation that those we elect will at least try to represent our interests. We assume that any debate in parliament, particularly if the issue is contentious, will be as well-informed as it can possibly be. On 20 November, we saw Labor and the…