Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: toilets

  • 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…

  • Freedom of choice in the public toilet

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    Hobart will next month consider installing permanent signs in all public lavatories endorsing the right of transgender people to use men’s or women’s toilets. Temporary signs have already been backed by the Hobart City Council, but their implementation has stalled amid attempts to “deplatform” a women’s group from the consultation process. Advocates are pushing ahead…

  • Gender Neutral Toilet Signs – Letter to Cr Ewim

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    Letter from Hobart resident, Anne Warburton, to Holly Ewin, Hobart City Councillor, about Councillor Ewin’s proposed gender neutral toilet signs. We were asked (by the author of the letter) to share it on our page. Dear Cr Ewin, I see you have initiated a project to put up posters welcoming transgender people to council-operated women’s…

  • Councillor Holly Ewin Encouraging ‘Noisy’ Protest Outside HCC Meeting

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    This evening, Hobart City Council will meet to discuss, among other things, the following motion – That: 1. Trans and Gender diverse posters not be displayed on a permanent basis, however be included on an annual program of display in the City’s public toilets. 2. The development and design of the posters to be in…