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  • The Mercury’s One-Sided Report on Gender Identity Forum

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    Women Speak Tasmania’s official complaint noted that the article misrepresented the forum’s organisers—it was incorrectly portrayed as an “anti-trans” event. It was also organised by the Coalition for Biological Reality, not Women Speak Tasmania. The public forum was titled: “Gender Identity in Law – Impacts on Women, Children and Transgender People: Balancing the Conversation.” The…

  • Reflecting on the Coalition for Biological Reality Forum “Gender Identity in Law”

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    On 26 February 2022, Hobart Town Hall hosted the long-awaited Gender Identity in Law forum, organised by the Coalition for Biological Reality. Originally scheduled for 28 August 2021, the event was postponed due to COVID-19 lockdowns, but the determination of organisers and supporters ensured it finally went ahead. The forum was created to spark an…

  • Fact Check on Gender Law Reform forum

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    Matty Wright’s letter (Mercury, October 11) in response to Charles Wooley’s article (Mercury, October 8) continues the misinformation generated by Kenji Sato’s article of October 3 headed ‘Offensive’ anti-trans forum sparks outrage.’ Of note is that the online version of the article was headed ‘Women Speak Tasmania forum to go ahead despite public backlash’. This…

  • Open and Frank Discussions only way Forward Regarding Gender Law Reforms

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    Conflict on the topic of gender makes the need for full debate all the more pressing, write Isla MacGregor, Jessica Hoyle and Rebecca Crossin MANY people, especially feminists, have been excluded from commenting or taking part in consultations over the gender law reforms and their impacts on sex-based rights. We have also been vilified and…

  • Women Speak Tasmania transgender forum angers: Charles Wooley opinion

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    I DECIPHERED a new acronym this week. TERF; trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Stay with me. Yes, I know many of you find this stuff irritating because it only seems to footer in the sidelines of history when the main game right now is will China invade Taiwan and what will ScoMo take to Glasgow, if he…

  • Women Speak Tasmania forum to go ahead despite public backlash

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    A GROUP that likens transgenderism to a “cult” and a “social contagion” is holding a public forum at Hobart Town Hall. Women Speak Tasmania plans to hold its event on November 27 despite public backlash, with 18 people writing letters of complaint to Hobart City Council. One of the speakers will be Hobart sociologist Geoff…

  • RTI Documents Reveal Campaign Fails to Cancel Public Forum

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    Information obtained under Right to Information from Hobart City Council has exposed the failure of a campaign backed by Cr Jx Ewin to have a public forum cancelled at Hobart Town Hall. The public forum Gender Identity in Law – Impacts on women children and transgender people – Balancing the conversation – originally booked for…

  • Hobart Councillor Jax Ewin Fails to Cancel Public Forum

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    Hobart City Councillor Jax Ewin has failed to persuade Hobart City Council to cancel a public forum, Gender Identity in Law, being held at the Hobart Town Hall on 28 August. Cr Ewin’s latest attempt to prevent people from speaking about the impacts of gender identity laws was publicly shared on Facebook on 12 July:…

  • One-sex lesbian events ‘unlawful’

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    Lesbians will be breaking the law if they exclude biological males who are transgender from social events, after a controversial discrimination ruling set to become a national test case. Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt has ruled lesbian events that exclude trans-women carry a “significant risk” of breaching legislation. In a decision this month not yet…

  • Protest in Hobart Calls for Parliamentary Inquiry into Medicalisation of Children

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    On Friday, April 23, 2021, members of Women Speak Tasmania (WST) gathered outside the Tasmanian Gender Service at 60 Collins Street, Hobart, to protest the medicalisation of children with gender dysphoria. The action was part of an international campaign highlighting the unethical and experimental nature of so-called “gender-affirming” medical interventions on vulnerable young people. Holding…