Tag: Women’s Rights
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Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1
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By Isla MacGregor Part One. Silencing and Censorship or Robust Debate? The recent launch of the group, Transforming Tasmania, which aims to lobby for law reforms that improve the lives of transgender and gender-diverse people, is an opportunity for the community to engage in robust, open and safe discussions on matters concerning gender identity. The…
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Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
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Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male sex, or the female sex? I’m not talking about people with personality traits that are wholly ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’, because no-one is a walking sex stereotype. I’m talking about physical sex. There are…
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Women and girls the big losers in Options Paper …
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Equal Opportunity Tasmania ( HERE ) has recently released an Options Paper proposing changes to the Births Deaths and Marriages Act. The proposed changes would allow people to change the biological sex recorded on their birth certificates based entirely on self-identification and without having undergone a physical sex change. Within the Options Paper, Equal Opportunity Tasmania states…