Tag: WST
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What a Week! Reflections on Advocacy, Attacks, and Media Balance in Tasmania
Over the weekend, we at Women Speak Tasmania reflected on a very busy and, yes, quite exciting week. It started with a simple email to Tasmanian parliamentarians asking for “sex” to be properly restored and protected in the Anti-Discrimination Act. What followed was a pile-on of attacks on women advocating for sex-based rights. It began…
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Opinion: Women Are Not “Anti-Trans” for Defending Sex-Based Rights
This week Women Speak Tasmania found itself discussed in Tasmania Parliament and labelled in media coverage as part of an “anti-transgender” campaign. The reason? We sent an email to Tasmanian parliamentarians inviting them to support the Women’s Pledge Australia and consider reforms to strengthen women’s sex-based protections under Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act. Women Speak Tasmania is…
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Request for Right of Reply and Opinion Piece Submission – Email to Craig Herbert
Email sent to Craig Herbert, editor of The Hobart Mercury – 20 May 2026 Dear Craig, I am writing regarding The Mercury article published on May 20 written by David Killick concerning Women Speak Tasmania and our campaign relating to Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act. The article characterised Women Speak Tasmania as “anti-transgender activists” and described our…
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Parliamentary Privilege Used Against Tasmanian Women
Yesterday in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, two MPs used parliamentary privilege to directly attack Women Speak Tasmania by name. Kristie Johnston MP (Independent, Clark) Independent MP Kristie Johnston again labelled Women Speak Tasmania an “anti-trans group” that promotes “division and hate”. She claimed we encourage threats of violence, and suggested that no member of…
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Tasmania rejects push to change discrimination laws targeting transgender people
Premier Jeremy Rockliff has rejected calls to ban transgender women from single-sex spaces after activists lobbied MPs to sign a pledge changing Tasmania’s discrimination laws. Tasmania will not be changing its discrimination laws despite lobbying from anti-transgender activists, Premier Jeremy Rockliff says. A mass email sent at the weekend has asked MPs to sign a…
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Women Speak Tasmania claims discrimination over canned library forum
A decision to cancel a Women Speak Tasmania event at the Burnie Library has escalated into a bitter clash involving claims of political discrimination and the role of public libraries in hosting controversial views. The group is known for its contentious views on sex and gender, and says it was last year effectively and “permanently…
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Quackery in a hurry
How ‘gender-affirming care’ got around the defences of commonsense and medical standards A scandal for the ages Ordinary people less alert to “quackery”; the effects of clever marketing and well-connected lobbying; and the failure of normal quality and safety checks—all these have combined to produce a “gender-affirming” medical scandal likely to be studied for decades…
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Protest Against Libraries Tasmania: Standing Up for Women’s Voices
On Sunday, 9 November, members of Women Speak Tasmania (WST) gathered outside the Hobart Library in Murray Street to protest Libraries Tasmania’s ongoing ban on hiring meeting rooms to our organisation. We organised the protest to coincide with the busy Farm Gate Market, ensuring our message would reach a wide cross-section of the community. This…
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Pamphlet “Libraries Tas: Free Speech NOT Here”
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has launched a campaign to expose Libraries Tasmania’s ban on our community meetings — a decision that prevents open discussion on safeguarding children, evidence-based healthcare, and women’s sex-based rights. As reported by The Australian (30 October 2025), this new “hate speech vetting” policy is silencing Tasmanians who simply wish to talk…
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Concerns Regarding Tasmanian Government’s Recent Decision to Ban Women Speak Tasmania from using Public Libraries – Letter to Tasmanian Attorney General
Dear Attorney General, I’m writing to you about the Tasmanian Government’s recent decision to ban Women Speak Tasmania from using public libraries. According to an article in The Australian the women’s rights group has been blocked multiple times from booking meeting rooms because their discussions about gender policies in schools supposedly breach Diversity and Inclusion…