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  • Tasmanian minister ‘prefers’ national inquiry into child gender clinics

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    A senior state cabinet member has written to the federal government asking for it to consider staging a national review into public medical services for children experiencing gender dysphoria. Health Minister Guy Barnett confirmed he wrote to his federal counterpart, Mark Butler, this week, requesting that he consider a review of gender clinics, following the…

  • Inquiring mind

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    Tasmania’s Liberal government has become the first Australian administration to recommend a national review of public gender services for minors. The island state’s Health Minister, Guy Barnett, who is also Attorney-General, said he had written to his federal counterpart—Australia’s Labor Party Health Minister, Mark Butler—to ask him to consider the idea. On Thursday, Mr Barnett…

  • Landmark British report offers insights for Tasmania’s transgender debate

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    A tectonic shift is taking place overseas in the debate over how to treat children that question their gender identity, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned in Tasmania. The UK government commissioned a review into the treatment of gender-diverse children back in 2020, and its full report by UK paediatrician Dr Hilary…

  • Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test

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    In the opinion piece “Tasmania will this coming week face its free speech litmus test”, Benjamin Seeder argues that Tasmania’s commitment to free speech would be tested by the planned visit of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan to Hobart. Seeder describes free speech as a foundational democratic right from which other freedoms flow and contends…

  • ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forum

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    A feminist group opposed to trans ideology is claiming censorship after the Burnie Library cancelled a forum organised for Thursday to discuss the use of puberty blockers in Tasmania. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) spokesperson Isla MacGregor said the forum was organised to warn parents of the risks of the use of gender medicine. But the…

  • Pamphlet: Girls and Women have a Right to Female Only Spaces

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    Women Speak Tasmania members distributed pamphlets to raise awareness about the risks posed by sex self-identification laws in Tasmania. These laws allow any male-bodied person to legally claim a female identity without medical transition, opening the door to women’s and girls’ spaces—spaces designed for privacy, dignity, and safety. Women and girls should never be forced…

  • Women Speak Tasmania Condemns HCC Bullying of Councillor Elliot

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    Women Speak Tasmania members staged a series of protests in response to the continued bullying and vilification of Councillor Louise Elliott, who has been unfairly targeted simply for expressing gender-critical views. These actions draw attention to the climate of intolerance faced by women in public life who dare to defend sex-based rights. Attempts to silence…

  • Stop the Social and Medical Transition of Vulnerable Children

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    Women Speak Tasmania and LGB Tasmania members kicked off an awareness raising campaign “Let Kids be Kids” Currently in this era of ‘gender affirmation’, schools are taking an active role in socially transitioning children with gender dysphoria, by encouraging the changing of names, pronouns, uniform and allowing them to enter single sex spaces and sports…

  • Tasmanian Labor pledges to extend hate laws to transphobia and homophobia

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    Tasmanian Labor has vowed to extend race hate laws to also cover crimes motivated by transphobia, homophobia and potentially sexism. The move would allow judges and magistrates to impose a tougher sentence on offenders motivated by such hatreds, and has been hailed by activists. Labor justice spokeswoman Ella Haddad told The Australian the new provision…

  • Hobart transgender rights rally: Police investigating whether ‘physical contact’ was made

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    Police are looking into claims of physical contact between protesters during demonstrations outside Parliament House on Tuesday. LATEST Police are looking into claims of physical contact between protesters during demonstrations outside Parliament House on Tuesday. Hundreds of pro-transgender rights supporters rallied against a small group with opposing views on Tuesday. The following day, Greens leader…