Tag: social transition
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The Growing Conflict Over Children, Gender Policy, and Government Authority
Across Australia, a quiet but profound shift is occurring in education policy. It is not primarily about pronouns, flags, or even gender identity. At its core, the emerging conflict concerns something far more fundamental: who has responsibility for children — parents or the state? Over the past two years, policies introduced in several Australian states…
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Working It Out: What is Happening in Tasmanian Schools?
Recent information from multiple sources — including Working It Out Inc.’s own public statements — confirms that the organisation is actively involved in Tasmanian schools, providing “affirmation planning” for trans and gender-diverse students, assisting schools to develop “inclusive curriculum content,” and delivering professional learning to teachers on “sexuality, sex, and gender diversity.” These activities, described…
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Family Planning Tasmania’s Growing Up Program and the Mental Health Impact of Social Transition at Schools – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Minister Barnett, Re: Family Planning Tasmania’s “Growing Up Program” and the Mental Health Impact of Social Transition Practices in Tasmanian Schools I am writing to raise serious concerns about the lack of transparency and safeguarding in programs being delivered to Tasmanian children under government funding — specifically, Family Planning Tasmania’s Growing Up Program (GUP)…
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iHeart Tassie – The Tasmanian Gender Service
This week on iHeart Tassie, John Fabris discusses the work of the Tasmanian Gender Service in transitioning children Interview with Isla MacGregor Episode Transcript Speaker 1 (00:01):I heart it. Hello, this is John Fabris. A topic today bound to draw intense emotional responses the active participation of the state in facilitating the physical and emotional…
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Cass Review – Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People
What is the Cass Review? Commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement in 2020 and chaired by Dr. Hilary Cass, the Cass Review culminated in April 2024. It represents the most comprehensive examination to date of gender identity services for children and young people within the NHS. Over four years, it drew on systematic reviews,…
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Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children
Women Speak Tasmania and LGB Tasmania members kicked off an awareness raising campaign “Let Kids be Kids” Currently in this era of ‘gender affirmation’, schools are taking an active role in socially transitioning children with gender dysphoria, by encouraging the changing of names, pronouns, uniform and allowing them to enter single sex spaces and sports…
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Cutting Out Parents put Kids at Risk
Should organisations promoting gender affirming care be able to ignore the recommendations of a Royal Commission aimed at keeping kids safe? A Royal Commission Sadly we know all too well in Australia about the horrors of child sexual abuse and the damage it has done to countless children, many of whom are now adults. We…
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Parents raise alarm school ‘wellbeing teams’ encourage children to question gender
Parents are raising the alarm that some high schools are “crossing the line” in not only supporting students to socially transition as the opposite sex without parents’ knowledge but actively encouraging children to question gender identities. Concerned teachers say “wellbeing co-ordinators” stationed within public schools in several states, but often with no qualifications in education…