Tag: trans-identified male
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From Tasmania to London: Women Around the World Say No Men in Women’s Prisons
On Saturday 29 August 2026, women gathered outside the Old Bailey in London for a protest organised by the grassroots organisations No Men in Women’s Prisons and 199 Days Later The protest was centred on a simple question: why are men still being housed in women’s prisons? The location itself carried historical significance. The Old…
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The Female Factory Flash Mob Returns: A Protest Over Who Gets Remembered as a Woman
Cascades Female Factory Historic Site, Hobart — 13 April 2026 A first-hand account documented by Female Factory Flash Mob 2026 There is a particular irony in what happened at the Cascades Female Factory on 13 April 2026. To see it clearly, the place has to be taken on its own terms. In the early years…
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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…