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  • Justice Miscellaneous -Conversion Practices- Bill 2024

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    While commendable in principle, the Government’s proposed Bill intended to ban conversion practices that attempt to change or eradicate the sexual orientation or gender identity of another person, fails to address critical inconsistencies with existing laws regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. In principle, we support laws that prevent conversion practices for sexual orientation, however…

  • Opinion: Rodney Croome: Will promoting hate achieve a win-win?

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    This opinion piece was written by Isla MacGregor in response to Rodney Croome’s article. It was rejected by the new editor of The Tasmanian Times I read Rodney Croome’s article ‘Turf War: What’s really Behind Recent Attacks on Trans Tasmanians‘ with considerable interest, most notably for the conspiratorial tone of his article and the lack…

  • Tasmania’s Department of Education Tells Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report

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    In July 2023, Tasmanian schools received an important report: Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools by Policy Exchange. The report highlighted serious safeguarding failures in UK schools, where contested gender ideology has been allowed to override long-established child protection principles. Safeguarding Children in Schools Australia (SCISA) distributed this…

  • Department of Education Instructs Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report “Asleep at the Wheel”

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    A Department of Education representative has told its schools to ignore an important report that was recently provided to them by Safeguarding Children in Schools. The report, titled Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools, was provided to public schools following growing concerns amongst Tasmanian parents and teachers into…

  • Is Terry White Pharmacy Excluding Mothers?

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    In June 2023, a catalogue from Terry White Chemmart (covering items on sale from 1–20 June) included a page titled “A family affair” promoting vaccination. The text stated: “The birthing parent is the most important person in the family to be vaccinated.” This wording replaces the clear and widely understood term “mother” with a clinical…

  • Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • Opinion: Freedom of speech sadly absent from rally

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    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.…