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  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3

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    Part Three. “I am not a Woman” – Transsexuals and Transgender Women Speak Out Today, the dominant discourse in the transgender rights debate insists that transgender women are ‘women’. It is not uncommon to hear the argument that, because they are women, their biology is female and it is ‘transphobic’ to suggest they are biological…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2

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    Part Two. The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal from participation, censorship, bullying, threats, intimidation, silencing, stonewalling and expulsion from groups for those who express dissent from the ‘popular’ transgender narrative. The following Tasmanian case studies outline examples of trans rights crusaders and their ideological supporters apparently acting in a manner inconsistent with…

  • Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1

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    Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The media has an…

  • Outrage over Oxfam Investigations into Paedophiles, Sexual Misconduct …

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    Yesterday’s news about NGO Oxfam’s 2011 internal investigation into allegations against some staff over sexual abuse, harassment and illegal use of prostitutes revealed a totally abhorrent culture within some elements of the world-renowned aid organisation. Several staff members who worked with Oxfam in Chad and Haiti between 2006 and 2010 have been dismissed or have…

  • Funding Cuts to Scarlet Alliance: Michael Keenan Gets it Right …

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    I can only congratulate Justice Minister Michael Keenan for not allocating funding to the Scarlet Alliance in the 2017/18 round of funding to NGOs for combating sex trafficking and slavery in Australia. In February, March and April this year I was a co-signatory of a group of concerned womens’ human rights campaigners who wrote to…

  • It’s Bad News from New Zealand’s Survivors …

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    Survivors from the sex trade in New Zealand are speaking out about the tragic failure of decriminalisation aimed at preventing harms to prostituted women and girls from sex buyers and pimps but here in Tasmania Young Labor and many in the Union movement don’t want to hear their voices. The Scarlet Alliance ramped up their…

  • Anti-Discrimination Boss to Face Bias Claim over Sex Change Plan

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    Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, will find herself on the other side of a sex discrimination claim, before the Australian Human Rights Commission.  Ms Banks has outraged some feminists by recommending changes to state law to allow men who identify as women, but who have not had a sex change, to legally register as female.  An activist…

  • Sex, Law, and Safeguarding: Why Tasmania Must Not Erase Women from the Births, Deaths & Marriages Act

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    The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), Southern Tasmania, has provided a detailed response to Equal Opportunity Tasmania’s (EOT) “Options Paper” proposing changes to the Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act 1999 (BDMR Act). Their message is simple: sex matters, and erasing it from law will undermine women’s rights, safeguarding, and service delivery across Tasmania. What’s at…

  • Analysis of WoLF Submission to Equal Opportunity Tasmania Option Paper for Amendments to the BDMR Act

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    Overview Title: Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), Southern Tasmania – Comment on Options Paper: Legal recognition of sex and gender diversity in Tasmania—Options for amendments to the Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Equal Opportunity Tasmania). What it is: A formal submission responding to Equal Opportunity Tasmania’s (EOT) “Options Paper” proposing changes to the Births,…

  • Young Labor Didn’t Do its Homework

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    Tasmanian Labor’s agenda for its conference in Queenstown this weekend has promised an opportunity for ‘robust and spirited debate’. While the decriminalisation of brothels and the legalisation of some illicit drugs are being proposed by two separate branches of the party, the coupling of both proposals is difficult to avoid. A more cynical person would…