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  • Safety and Mental Health Concerns for Girls in the Miss Tasmania Pageant

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    Why Biological Males Competing Undermines Child Safeguarding and Female Empowerment In February 2026, Mini Miss Pageants announced Lucy Violet Faulkner — a trans-identified man from Geelong, Victoria — as a 2026 Miss Tasmania contestant. The original social media post was quickly removed after strong community backlash. The Tasmanian papers focused heavily on claims of “hatred”…

  • Reviewing Amnesty International’s Position on Prostitution: A Survivor-Centred Perspective

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    Before the formation of Women Speak Tasmania, members were already active in campaigning against the decriminalisation of prostitution and advocating for the rights and safety of survivors. Isla MacGregor played a leading role in Tasmania, working alongside Simone Watson and the Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) to promote the Nordic Model. Together, they lobbied policymakers,…

  • Where Does Women’s Legal Service Tasmania Stand on Prostitution?

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    Women Speak Tasmania recently noted that the Women’s Legal Service Tasmania website displays a modified Pride flag incorporating a red umbrella symbol. Many Tasmanians would understandably not recognise its meaning. The red umbrella is not a generic diversity symbol. Internationally, it is the political emblem of the sex-industry legalisation movement and has been used in…

  • Opinion: Culture of Fear, Surveillance and Social Breakdown

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    The most significant impacts of sex self-ID laws have become increasingly apparent with the breakdown in trust within families and of social cohesion in our communities. This corresponds to an increase in coercion for conformity to ‘group think’ and surveillance for ‘right think’ within our society at large on multiple issues. While many issues today…

  • How Gender Policy Is Costing Girls Their Sporting Future

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    Tasmania’s gender law reforms, which prioritise self-identification over biological sex, are having profound and often unintended consequences for women and girls. These policies grant immediate access to female-only sports, change rooms, toilets, and services based solely on declared gender identity, without safeguards or consideration of measurable physical differences between male and female bodies. While inclusion…

  • Tasmania’s Chief Psychiatrist Must Protect Kids from Irreversible Gender Treatments

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    Recent developments in Australia show that the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children and adolescents experiencing gender distress is under serious scrutiny. Tasmania now has an urgent responsibility to ensure that young people are protected from potential long-term harm. Queensland Raises Red Flags In Queensland, disclosures from the Queensland Children’s Gender Service…

  • A Witch Hunt in Burnie? The Campaign to Remove Trent Aitken

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    Burnie City Councillor Trent Aitken, known locally as the “Boy from Burnie,” has been at the centre of ongoing controversy since early 2025 following social media comments relating to gender identity and transgender issues. What began as a Facebook post evolved into formal complaints, petitions, widespread media coverage, political pressure, and ultimately a 14-day suspension…

  • Women Speak Tasmania claims discrimination over canned library forum

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    A decision to cancel a Women Speak Tasmania event at the Burnie Library has escalated into a bitter clash involving claims of political discrimination and the role of public libraries in hosting controversial views. The group is known for its contentious views on sex and gender, and says it was last year effectively and “permanently…

  • Before Women Speak Tasmania: The Nordic Model Campaign Years (2012–2017)

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    Although Women Speak Tasmania was formally established in 2018, several founding members — including Isla MacGregor — had been actively engaged for years in advocacy relating to prostitution law reform, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. Much of this work occurred through collaboration with the Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) and international abolitionist networks. The period between…

  • No Men in Women’s Prison! – Letter to the Attorney General

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    Letter sent to Guy Barnett on 16 November 2025 Dear Mr Barnett, Many of us were heartened to read your announcement that in Tasmania, like the Northern Territory, men who claim to be “trans” would not be housed in women’s prisons. “At last, some sanity and decency!” we thought. No woman should be locked in…