Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: Women’s Rights

  • Free Speech Alliance Australia

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    Freedom of speech for women is under dire threat in Australia. Free Speech Alliance Australia has produced this poster and list of women in Australia from across the political spectrum who have been sacked, banned, no-platformed, expelled, threatened with violence including rape, attacked and/or vilified for speaking out about their views on women’s sex-based rights.…

  • Protest at Hobart Aquatic Centre to keep single sex change rooms and toilets.

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    Protesters will gather outside the Centre to talk to patrons as they enter the pool in the morning. Joining the protest will be Glenorchy Alderman and retired teacher Harry Quick and former Hobart Alderman and teacher Jeff Briscoe. Posters in the women’s toilets and change rooms at the Hobart Aquatic Centre instruct female patrons that…

  • A feminist critique

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    International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on this date to acknowledge the gains made by women in their struggle for rights. It is a time to reflect on the challenges ahead of us in these times of global uncertainty. Feminist are committed to centering women at the core of our struggle. Increasing poverty and…

  • Women need voice

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    The debate over the religious freedom Bill was poorly timed as it should have followed on from a Bill on amendments to the Federal Sex Discrimination Act to properly define the definition of woman and man. Fortunately, Senator Claire Chandler’s Bill for amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act to save women sports will be debated…

  • WDI Feminist Question Time with Isla MacGregor

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    Censorship of GC women in Tasmania – Isla McGregor Feminist Question Time with speakers from New Zealand, Australia and UK Women’s Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the…

  • International Women’s Day action in Hobart

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    Women Speak Tasmania members and allies prepared an International Women’s Day action in Hobart. We will always support women’s sex based rights and sex is unchangeable “Biological reality, not gender ideology”

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

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    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…

  • Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspective

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania In recent years, ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ have become a feature of anti-discrimination law in Australia at both the federal and state levels. Transgender rights proponents are now lobbying for radical changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas) that will enable…

  • Opposition grows against Transgender Rights campaign

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    Newly formed group Women Speak Tasmania, are ramping up their campaign to oppose reforms proposed by transgender lobby group Transforming  Tasmania. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘We are talking with many people in the Tasmanian community, especially women, who are shocked at the loss of safe women only services in Tasmania and the threats suggested by…

  • Calls for Review of Sex Discrimination Laws

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    Women Speak Tasmania is calling for uniform changes to federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Spokesperson Bronwyn Williams said, ‘We are calling on all Australian legislatures to urgently address the need for accurate and effective definitions of “sex” and “gender identity” in anti-discrimination laws across Australia’. ‘We must develop uniform laws in all Australian jurisdictions to…