Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: transgender

  • Lifting the lid on the fundamentalist trans rights lobby’s bag of dirty tryx in Tasmania

    —

    in ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor Women Speak Tasmania Human Rights Week 12 December 2018  Isla MacGregor writes …  ‘If one section of our community want to change the definition of what it is to be a woman, then women rightly have a major stake in this discussion, not only on their own behalf but…

  • Human rights event cancelled due to trans lobby’s bullying

    —

    in ,

    By Women Speak Tasmania ‘We are in a new era of witch burning, except that today, the fire is that of media and propaganda, with trans activists and their supporters suppressing any information that contradicts their goals and silencing their critics through oppressive tactics. Some of our contributors have been fired from teaching positions at…

  • The Mercury – PR Machine for the Trans Lobby?

    —

    in ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor In recent weeks, Hobart’s Mercury newspaper has featured a number of articles and longer form stories showcasing the trans rights lobby group, Transforming Tasmania. Transforming Tasmania is behind a number of radical amendments to birth registration and anti-discrimination laws put forward by Labor and the Greens in the Tasmanian…

  • The Trans Rights Debate – Who’s Peddling the ‘Hate’?

    —

    in ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor Emily Baker’s recent article in the Mercury titled ‘Penis stickers labelled hateful: Anger at anti-transgender campaign’ quoted Transforming Tasmania representative, Martine Delaney’s, opinion of the stickers. Delaney said the stickers expressed a view ‘actively promoted by only extremely conservative Christian groups and a very small percentage of women –…

  • Transgender campaign misinformation continues

    —

    in ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Roen Meijers of Transforming Tasmania continues to be confused about the issue of Birth Certificate registrations as it is not gender that is recorded, but sex. Additionally, the Options Paper on transgender law reform released for public consultation by former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, in…

  • O’Connor and White in Damage Control over Backlash on Transgender Reforms

    —

    in ,

    By Women Speak Tasmania While Labor Opposition leader, Rebecca White, moves to distance the party from a deal with the Greens to fast track changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, the Greens’ Cassy O’Connor has resorted to accusations of transphobia against those calling for public consultation on the issue. It’s now very…

  • Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?

    —

    in , ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania And what about the Mercury? In the last few months Tasmanian Times has published several articles on the transgender rights debate written by women from Women Speak Tasmania. Most of these articles were also sent out nationally as Media Releases.  No mainstream media in Australia has…

  • Protesters Call for Boycott of Girl Guides Australia

    —

    in ,

    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania Women Speak Tasmania has held a street protest against Girl Guides Australia’s recently released policy that allows biological male persons, both boys and adult men, to join the organisation as members and leaders Thursday 11 October 2018 was International Day of the Girl Child.  Girls…

  • Karen White: how ‘manipulative’ transgender inmate attacked again

    —

    in ,

    Transgender politics – like any politics – can be divisive. Yet in the case of Karen White, who is legally still a man but was put in a female-only prison, both sides of the transgender rights debate are united in the belief mistakes were made. White entered the UK prison system as transgender. However, despite dressing…

  • When Children Say They’re Trans

    —

    in ,

    Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers. By Jesse Singal Claire is a 14-year-old girl with short auburn hair and a broad smile. She lives outside Philadelphia with her mother and father, both professional scientists. Claire can come across as an introvert, but she quickly opens up, and what seemed like shyness reveals…