Tasmania - Women Speak Tasmania

Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children

Jun 6, 2023

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in LGB Rights, Paediatric Gender Medicine

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…

Cutting Out Parents put Kids at Risk

May 31, 2023

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in Gender Medicine News

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…

Tasmanian Labor pledges to extend hate laws to transphobia and homophobia

Apr 25, 2023

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in Gender Debate and Censorship

Tasmanian Labor has vowed to extend race hate laws to also cover crimes motivated by transphobia, homophobia and potentially sexism. The move would allow judges and magistrates to impose a tougher sentence on offenders motivated by such hatreds, and has been hailed by activists. Labor justice spokeswoman Ella Haddad told The Australian the new provision…

Policy on Biological Men Competing in Women’s Competition – Letter to AusCycling

Apr 14, 2023

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in Citizen Action

Great letter to AusCycling from Hobart’s International cycling competitor Jodie Willett To whom it may concern, I have held a MTBA/Cycling Australia/AusCycling membership continuously since 2006 I believe. I have proudly represented my state and my country at cycling competitions worldwide. I recently declined to renew my membership primarily due to the UCI, and by…

A Dark Day for Women’s Free Speech and Right to Lawful and Peaceful Assembly in Tasmania

Apr 1, 2023

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in Blog

How Tasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House In Tasmania we like to regard our state as a peaceful and accepting place where our people can safely and freely discuss the important issues of the day. But on Tuesday 21st, March 2023 we found to our dismay that there is one…

Opinion: Freedom of speech sadly absent from rally

Mar 27, 2023

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in Articles

Laws enacted in Tasmania to promote equality have backfired on all of us, writes Isla MacGregor Last week I attended the Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull Let Women Speak event on the Parliament House lawns in Hobart in the hope of listening to women speak about the impacts of gender identity laws on their basic rights and freedoms.…

Hobart transgender rights rally: Police investigating whether ‘physical contact’ was made

Mar 23, 2023

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in Gender Debate and Censorship

Police are looking into claims of physical contact between protesters during demonstrations outside Parliament House on Tuesday. LATEST Police are looking into claims of physical contact between protesters during demonstrations outside Parliament House on Tuesday. Hundreds of pro-transgender rights supporters rallied against a small group with opposing views on Tuesday. The following day, Greens leader…

Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images

Mar 22, 2023

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in Violence Against Women

A 30-year-old woman going through a gender change and her 23-year-old male partner have each been convicted of possessing child exploitation material. Anna Koizumi Umpisa Simmons appeared in the Burnie Magistrate’s Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child exploitation material. Magistrate Leanne Topfer fined Simmons $500 plus court costs, but…

The Media’s Campaign Against Media Freedom and Free Speech in Tasmania – Let Women Speak

Mar 21, 2023

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in Media Bias, Women’s Rights

This speech, delivered by Isla MacGregor at the Let Women Speak rally on the Parliament House lawns in Hobart in March 2023, outlines her concerns about media coverage, public institutions, and gender-identity policy debates in Tasmania. She argues that journalists and broadcasters have avoided reporting viewpoints from women’s and children’s rights advocates, describes her experiences…

Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter

Mar 15, 2023

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in Gender Debate and Censorship

The editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is no longer the editor of The Examiner newspaper, just days after explaining he did not have…

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