- Dossier on Impacts of Tasmania Sex Self-ID laws on Women, Girls, Families and LGB peoplePRESENTED TO TASMANIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL GUY BARNETT ON 20th JANUARY 2025 INTRODUCTION Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is a women led and woman centred grass roots advocacy body. We campaign for the sex based rights of women in Tasmania. WST believes… Read more: Dossier on Impacts of Tasmania Sex Self-ID laws on Women, Girls, Families and LGB people
- Impacts of Trans activism on the Human Rights of Women and GirlsBelow is an interesting paper prepared by the Feminist Legal Clinic detailing the impacts trans activism had on women’ rights, safe spaces, participation on sports and the erasure of the lesbian community
- Human Rights relating to WomenBy Sarah Kingsley United Nations Documents There is a range of legislation including international covenants and Australian law that governs human rights. The base document that outlines all human rights is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is… Read more: Human Rights relating to Women
- Self ID in the Misinformation Eraby Dianna T. Kenny PhD Several key medical journals (e.g., JAMA) have identified the profound harms caused by medical and health misinformation. They assert that health misinformation on social media disproportionately harms female adolescents, racial and ethnic minority youth, LGBQT+… Read more: Self ID in the Misinformation Era
- Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans WomanThe woman behind a female-only app says she will appeal Federal Court decision ruling sex is ‘changeable.’ Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover has launched an appeal against a Federal Court decision ruling sex is “changeable.” The appeal resulted… Read more: Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans Woman
- Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights CommissionIs the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our… Read more: Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
- Open letter to Board of Directors Equality AustraliaFrom: An Alliance of Australian lesbian, women’s and children’s rights organisations Dear Directors of the Board of Equality Australia, We the undersigned represent a broad alliance of lesbian and women’s rights organisations in Australia who have come together to invite… Read more: Open letter to Board of Directors Equality Australia
- Women’s rights groups call on Tasmania government to conduct inquiryStanding for Women, Tasmania, in collaboration with an alliance of women’s, lesbians’, and children’s human rights groups, has written to the Premier calling on his government to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into events leading up to and on the day… Read more: Women’s rights groups call on Tasmania government to conduct inquiry
- A dark day for women’s free speech and right to lawful and peaceful assembly in TasmaniaTasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House in Hobart in March 2023 In Tasmania we like to regard our state as a peaceful and accepting place where our people can safely and freely discuss the important… Read more: A dark day for women’s free speech and right to lawful and peaceful assembly in Tasmania
- Free Speech Alliance AustraliaFreedom 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… Read more: Free Speech Alliance Australia
- International Women’s Day action in HobartWomen 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”
- Breakfast with Kaz & Tubes – Triple M HobartYoni & The Steamers Bass player Katie Warren claims a Facebook post caused her to be personally bullied and ultimately caused her band to split. The former Hobart band member says she was blacklisted from local events because she expressed… Read more: Breakfast with Kaz & Tubes – Triple M Hobart
- Robin Banks Attempts to No-Platform Women Speak TasmaniaWomen Speak Tasmania is scheduled to speak at a Human Rights Week event for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) on 12 December next. On 30 November, former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, emailed WILPF with the following… Read more: Robin Banks Attempts to No-Platform Women Speak Tasmania
- Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspectiveBy 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… Read more: Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspective
- Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania And what about the Mercury? In the last few months Tasmanian Times has published several articles on the transgender rights debate written by women from Women Speak Tasmania. Most of… Read more: Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?
- Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3By Isla MacGregor Part Three. “I am not a Woman” – Transsexuals and Transgender Women Speak Out Today, the dominant discourse in the transgender rights debate insists that transgender women are ‘women’. It is not uncommon to hear the argument… Read more: Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 3
- Women call for review to sex discrimination lawsBy Isla MacGregor Women Speak Tasmania is calling for uniform changes to federal and state anti-discrimination laws. All Australian legislatures must urgently address the need for accurate and effective definitions of “sex” and “gender identity” in anti-discrimination laws across Australia.… Read more: Women call for review to sex discrimination laws
- Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2By Isla MacGregor Part Two. The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal from participation, censorship, bullying, threats, intimidation, silencing, stonewalling and expulsion from groups for those who express dissent from the ‘popular’ transgender narrative. The following Tasmanian case… Read more: Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 2
- Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1By 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… Read more: Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate. Part 1
- Anti-discrimination boss to face bias claim over sex change planTasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, will find herself on the other side of a sex discrimination claim, before the Australian Human Rights Commission. Ms Banks has outraged some feminists by recommending changes to state law to allow men who identify as women,… Read more: Anti-discrimination boss to face bias claim over sex change plan
- Trans Activists Trumped By Their Own Flawed PoliciesOn the 20th October, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that student politician and Liberal MP staffer Alex Fitton had identified himself as a woman in order to win an executive position in a student election worth $12,000. A similar situation… Read more: Trans Activists Trumped By Their Own Flawed Policies
- Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination CommissionerDo 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… Read more: Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
- Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …By Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks and Equal Opportunity Tasmania Policy Advisor Leica Wagner. The allegations… Read more: Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …
- Anti-discrimination commissioner bullied me: feministA leading feminist has made official complaints of bullying and sex discrimination against Tasmania’s female Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, who dismisses the claims. Tessa Anne, an activist with the radical feminist Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF), has lodged complaints with the state’s… Read more: Anti-discrimination commissioner bullied me: feminist
- The threat posed to women’s rights …The Women’s Liberation Front Southern Tasmania (WoLF Tas) has written to Tasmanian and Victorian MP’s warning them about the threat posed to women’s rights if proposed legislative changes tabled yesterday in the Victorian Parliament by Premier Daniel Andrews and also… Read more: The threat posed to women’s rights …
- Women and girls the big losers in Options Paper …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… Read more: Women and girls the big losers in Options Paper …