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🚨New Zealand drops ‘trans inclusive’ guidelines to protect female sport on the basis of biological sex. 🇳🇿 “This is purely about ensuring there is safety and security for girls and women in the sports they play at every level.”- @winstonpeters. 👏 Bravo! 🇦🇺 @Mark_Butler_MP…
⚖️ “We need the Australian government to follow suit, bringing in legislative reforms that mandate sporting bodies protect the female category on the basis of biological sex, so that all girls - regardless of whether they're playing at a community, state or elite level - have the…
💔 The heartbreaking stories of Australian parents in this brilliant in depth feature in the Weekend @Australian lay bare the devastating cost of our country’s blind adherence to the so-called ‘gender-affirming’ model of care. 🚩 @TessH_ROGD_Mum (WA), Richard (NSW), and Scott…
“He said that he discovered his womanhood in part because he didn’t like the smell of male change rooms & the candle is political satire on this males perception of womanhood, making a mockery of womanhood itself. You do what it was intended to do: you laugh at it.” CandleGate🙄
🚨 “Better to have a live son than a dead daughter.” 🚩 This chilling, manipulative line is often used to silence parents asking medical professionals ‘too many questions’ when it comes to gender medicine. 🗞 This week, two parents share their heartbreaking stories with The…
When attempted rapist "Lisa" Jones was placed in a Victorian women's prison, both the @VEOHRC and the Australian Human Rights Commission claimed to have no power to intervene. Jones was convicted of sexual assault after he "put [his] hands down the woman’s pants and tried to…
"What we've learnt is that childcare centres aren't safe. The issues are systemic and I'm not sure that any reforms are going to root them out completely. But the other thing that we need to be talking about is whether childcare is actually good for children." Our Head of…
I wrote to Corrections Minister @AnoulackMP seeking clarification on NSW's transgender prison policy. The public deserves transparency and accountability on what the state's policies and laws actually say about the dangerous and unjust practice of housing men in women's prisons.…
Contrary to yesterday's media reports, NSW was the first Australian state to house men who say they're women in women's prisons. It began with the disturbing case of convicted murderer Noel Compton Hall. We explore this case in detail in episode 5 of Desexing Society, and more.…
"Just last week NSW's sex self-ID laws came into effect, so our fear is – what happens in the future when murderers and sex offenders come into the system already legally women? "It shouldn't be up to @salltweets to fight this fight, the federal government could change this…
🚨🚨🚨 Is the NSW Government gaslighting us on its transgender prison policy? 🚩 Yesterday, government officials scrambled to assure the public that "All transgender inmates are housed in facilities corresponding to their sex assigned at birth". 🚩 But Corrective Services NSW's…
❌ “I don't care if he's serious or gaming the system. No man should be housed in a women's prison.” Our CEO @RachaelWongAus chats to @LucyZelic on @2GB873 about the convicted double male murderer who now identifies as female and wants to transfer to a women’s prison in NSW.…
‘Chief Executive Officer of Women's Forum Australia Rachael Wong said it was not the first time Australians have been presented with evidence that sex selective abortions are being undertaken in the country. “Still nothing is being done to guard against this abhorrent practice,…
The Liberal Party is too scared to define what a woman is- but they want more in Parliament. If @LiberalAus want to improve their elected female representation they should stop talking about quotas and work out what they stand for so they can build a policy base worth voting…
“Protecting children from pornographic material is not ‘censorship’. It is heartening to see both the US and Australia taking steps in the right direction, which put the safety, dignity and wellbeing of children first.” 🔗 womensforumaustralia.org/welcome_develo…
“Penn’s reversal shows that common sense can still win – but only after it’s been dragged, kicking and screaming, through the mud of ideology. The real question now is whether other institutions will learn from this and stop sacrificing women on the altar of progressive purity.”…
We were pleased to support this statement on surrogacy delivered by @CasaDeclaration spokesperson @maurel_olivia on behalf of @JuristePLE at the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council this week. In a media release on the statement, Maurel declares: "As someone born through…
🚨 In less than 12 months two blokes working in childcare have been charged with a horrifically extensive list of crimes against children. The first one was convicted and received a life sentence. Despite the ongoing regulatory failures and frequent neglect and abuse that are…