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Tag: Sex Self-ID

  • Protect kids from gender reform

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    Tasmania’s children’s commissioner has intervened in the debate over sweeping transgender law reform, warning of the need for safeguards before children can change their official sex or gender. Leanne McLean has written to members of the state’s upper house, expressing concern about aspects of the controversial reforms that make it easier for people, including children,…

  • Salamanca Market’s Attack on Women’s Freedom of Speech

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    Last Saturday Women Speak Tasmania held a media conference at Salamanca (outside the market precinct) to launch our flyer outlining our views on proposed transgender law reforms and their effects on women’s human rights.   The flyers were also distributed at Salamanca Market that day. Our flyers received both positive and not so positive responses but…

  • Protest Over Planned Transgender Laws

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    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…

  • Cassy O’Connor and Rebecca White must Explain How Sex Self-ID will Impact Women’s Human Rights?

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    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…

  • A Response to Ruth Forrest on Self-ID and Birth Registration Changes – Letter to Ruth Forrest

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    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…

  • Lifting the Lid on the Fundamentalist Trans Rights Lobby’s Bag of Dirty Tryx in Tasmania

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    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.…

  • Good Governance Prevails as Debate on Trans Law Reform is Deferred

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    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…

  • Birth Certificate Changes … Caution Isn’t Wilful Ignorance

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    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…

  • Nature such a reassuring obstacle to opting gender

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    Today, in an opinion article titled “Nature Such a Reassuring Obstacle to Opt-In Gender” (26 November 2018), columnist Jennifer Oriel criticised proposed Tasmanian reforms that would remove the automatic recording of sex on birth certificates and allow individuals to change the sex recorded on official documents through self-identification. Oriel argued that biological sex is an…

  • Fears over impact of Tasmanian gender laws on schools and women’s services

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    Today, in an article for The Australian titled “Fears Over Impact of Tasmanian Gender Laws on Schools and Women’s Services” (23 November 2018), journalist Matthew Denholm reported on the passage of significant transgender law reforms through Tasmania’s House of Assembly. The reforms included provisions allowing people aged 16 and over to change the sex recorded…