Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Robin Banks, Women Speak Tasmania and the WILPF Controversy: A Historical Record

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    Introduction In late 2018, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) became involved in a public controversy that raised questions about freedom of expression, political disagreement, and the participation of women in debates surrounding proposed gender law reforms in Tasmania. The dispute began after former Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks contacted the Women’s International League for Peace and…

  • Women Speak Tasmania transgender forum angers: Charles Wooley opinion

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    I DECIPHERED a new acronym this week. TERF; trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Stay with me. Yes, I know many of you find this stuff irritating because it only seems to footer in the sidelines of history when the main game right now is will China invade Taiwan and what will ScoMo take to Glasgow, if he…

  • Women Speak Tasmania forum to go ahead despite public backlash

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    A GROUP that likens transgenderism to a “cult” and a “social contagion” is holding a public forum at Hobart Town Hall. Women Speak Tasmania plans to hold its event on November 27 despite public backlash, with 18 people writing letters of complaint to Hobart City Council. One of the speakers will be Hobart sociologist Geoff…

  • International Women’s Day Action in Hobart

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    On International Women’s Day, Women Speak Tasmania members and allies gathered in Hobart to take action in support of women’s rights. We stand firmly for sex-based rights, affirming that biological sex is real, measurable, and unchangeable. Our advocacy is rooted in the principle of “biological reality, not gender ideology”, ensuring that policies and protections for…

  • Cr Holly Ewin had NO Evidence to Answer

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    Hobart City Councillor Holly Ewin failed to answer the Question Without Notice from Isla MacGregor from Women Speak Tasmania at last months Council Meeting and again in shorter form at last nights Council meeting. After providing a response to the question last month in the form of a three page tirade about gender ideology, Cr…

  • Women’s group raises questions about councillor’s apology

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    A women’s rights group is continuing to put political pressure on a Hobart City councillor, questioning the sincerity of a recent apology to other elected members. At a council meeting on February 11, Councillor Holly Ewin gave a public apology after being directed to do so by a code of conduct panel. The apology to…

  • Yoni and the Steamers band banned, split over transgender row

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    A rock musician says she was bullied, blacklisted and ultimately had her band broken up ­because she expressed concern at material normalising child abuse being provided to transgender children. Until late last year, rock-punk band Yoni and the Steamers, popular on Hobart’s pub scene, seemed destined for greater things, having released an EP and single…

  • Andrew Wilkie Office Ban Spurs Transgender Row

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    Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has banned a women’s group from office facilities made available to community organisations because of its “exclusionary” views on transgender issues. The federal member for Clark allows community groups to use his taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. Until recently this included feminist group Women Speak Tasmania. WST has in recent years…

  • RIP Tasmanian Times: The Death of Independent Journalism

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    Tasmanian Times, previously owned by independent editor Lindsay Tuffin, has been taken over by Green Party stalwart and political aspirant Alan Whykes. Whykes has brought a new style to Tastimes that has not been welcomed by many former writers, contributors and readers. Alan Whykes has stood as a candidate for the Tasmanian Greens in several…

  • Garbled unisex message in toilets

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    After much controversy, the push to encourage “trans and gender diverse” use of Hobart’s public toilets is to result in sign­age derided as “meaningless”. The Hobart City Council has for months been wrestling with the wording of poster-style signs urging acceptance of people using the toilet — male or female — that aligns with the…