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  • Women Back Repeal of Gender Laws

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    Women Speak Tasmania congratulate the Liberal State Conference decision to repeal the state’s gender reforms. “The Tasmanian gender reforms have most definitely had adverse consequences for girls and women in Tasmania.” “Girls and women’s freedom of speech and their right to assert that sex-based rights must be protected, has been severely impacted”. “Women Speak Tasmania…

  • Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images

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    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…

  • Katie Warren’s Open Letter About Further Cancellation at Brisbane Hotel

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    Following the February 2020 The Australian interview and Triple M Hobart, Katie Warren continued to face targeted harassment on Facebook. Screenshots from the time show individuals from Hobart’s transgender community responding to her safeguarding concerns with direct threats, including a comment stating: “Honestly, sounds like we should be giving CPS a call about you. I…

  • Cr Holly Ewin had NO Evidence to Answer

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    Hobart City Councillor Holly Ewin failed to answer the Question Without Notice from Isla MacGregor from Women Speak Tasmania at last months Council Meeting and again in shorter form at last nights Council meeting. After providing a response to the question last month in the form of a three page tirade about gender ideology, Cr…

  • Yoni and the Steamers band banned, split over transgender row

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    A rock musician says she was bullied, blacklisted and ultimately had her band broken up ­because she expressed concern at material normalising child abuse being provided to transgender children. Until late last year, rock-punk band Yoni and the Steamers, popular on Hobart’s pub scene, seemed destined for greater things, having released an EP and single…

  • Andrew Wilkie Office Ban Spurs Transgender Row

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    Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has banned a women’s group from office facilities made available to community organisations because of its “exclusionary” views on transgender issues. The federal member for Clark allows community groups to use his taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. Until recently this included feminist group Women Speak Tasmania. WST has in recent years…

  • Recognising Service to Free Speech

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    For International Human Rights Day this year Women Speak Tasmania are recognising two outstanding Tasmanians for their contribution to Freedom of Speech.   Freedom of speech underpins all human rights. “On International Human Rights Day we want to recognise the contribution of Anne Warburton and Alderman Jeff Briscoe who have defended women’s rights to express…

  • RIP Tasmanian Times: The Death of Independent Journalism

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    Tasmanian Times, previously owned by independent editor Lindsay Tuffin, has been taken over by Green Party stalwart and political aspirant Alan Whykes. Whykes has brought a new style to Tastimes that has not been welcomed by many former writers, contributors and readers. Alan Whykes has stood as a candidate for the Tasmanian Greens in several…

  • The Story of Hobart’s Gender-Inclusive Toilet Posters

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    In 2019, Hobart City Council debated whether to display posters in public toilets supporting trans and gender-diverse people. The initiative was introduced by Councillor Holly Ewin in May 2019. Cr Ewin argued that displaying posters would show solidarity with Hobart’s queer community at a time of heightened debate over gender, birth certificates, and marriage law…

  • Garbled unisex message in toilets

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    After much controversy, the push to encourage “trans and gender diverse” use of Hobart’s public toilets is to result in sign­age derided as “meaningless”. The Hobart City Council has for months been wrestling with the wording of poster-style signs urging acceptance of people using the toilet — male or female — that aligns with the…