Tag: trans-identified male
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Is AHPRA’s Registration of a Trans-Identified Male as Female Putting Patient Consent at Risk?
The recent registration of the trans-identified male Dr Beth Upton by Australia’s medical regulator has raised serious concerns among women across the country. The trans-identified male Dr Beth Upton, who began transitioning in 2022, is now working as an unaccredited emergency-medicine trainee under supervision at Port Macquarie Base Hospital and Kempsey District Hospital on the…
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Request to Remove the Portrait of Martine Delaney from the Wall of Women display at Cascades Female Factory Historic Site – Email to Madeleine Ogilvie
Email sent to Minister for Arts and Heritage, Madeleine Ogilvie MP, on 16.04.26 Dear Minister Ogilvie, I am writing to respectfully request the removal of the portrait of Martine Delaney (a biological male) from the Wall of Women display at the World Heritage-listed Cascades Female Factory Historic Site in South Hobart. The Cascades Female Factory…
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The Hidden Cost of Gender Ideology in Australian Prisons: Women’s Safety Sacrificed
Over the past months, a series of highly publicised cases across multiple Australian jurisdictions has raised grave concerns about prison placement policies that allow male prisoners to be housed in women’s correctional facilities on the basis of gender identity or legal sex change rather than biological sex. In several documented instances, these policies have coincided…
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Safety and Mental Health Concerns for Girls in the Miss Tasmania Pageant
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”…
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No Men in Women’s Prison! – Letter to the Attorney General
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…
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Opinion: Lessons from the Harwood Case: Why Evidence, Not Ideology, Must Guide Prison Policy
The Attorney-General Guy Barnett’s recent contradictory statements in The Mercury and The Australian regarding trans inmate policy highlight the need for a broader public debate about women’s rights and the legal distinction between sex and gender. While Guy Barnett recently decided that a transgender serious child sex offender would be placed in the men’s prison,…
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Lessons from the Harwood Case: How to Protect Vulnerable Prisoners Without Compromising Women’s Safety
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) does not support the housing of trans-identifying males in female prisons. However, we recognise the vulnerability of individuals who identify as transgender and acknowledge the complex challenges they face in custody. We have reviewed in detail the findings of the Coroner’s inquiry into the death of Marjorie Harwood, and we understand…
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Trans Prisoner Debacle Exposes AG Double Standards on Sex and Gender
Recent reports in The Australian and The Mercury expose conflicting positions given by Attorney-General Guy Barnett. In response to a specific question from The Australian about whether he will update policy on trans prisoners, the Attorney-General said: “After recently being briefed on a request from a serious child sex offender to be placed in a…
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Barnett Rejects Trans Jail ‘Ban’
Tasmanian Attorney-General Guy Barnett has rejected claims the government had “banned” transgender inmates from serving time in women’s prisons, saying his recent decision to deny a convicted child abuser’s request to be housed with females was consistent with current policies. After Equality Tasmania expressed concern about the wider ramifications of Mr. Barnett’s ruling – which…
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Women Speak Tasmania Congratulates Attorney-General for Protecting Female Prisoners
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) congratulates the Tasmanian Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Guy Barnett, for taking decisive action to protect vulnerable women in prison by ensuring that a male sex offender who identifies as female will serve his sentence in a male facility. This decision follows the recent sentencing of a Tasmanian father who identifies…