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Pages tagged "Stephanie Bastiaan"


Queensland Children’s Gender Service Review is a Sham

Posted on News · July 22, 2024 3:24 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Queensland Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has committed a further $2.6 million per year in funding to Queensland Children's Gender Service (QCGS) to implement the recommendations of an 'independent' review released on Friday, bringing its tax-funded budget up to $5.2 million annually. 

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The shameful trade of women and children: Why there’s no place for Alex Greenwich’s regressive surrogacy reforms in NSW

Posted on News · February 07, 2024 2:41 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

This week, New South Wales is set to debate Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, a component of which seeks to decriminalise overseas commercial surrogacy. While altruistic surrogacy is legal throughout Australia, commercial surrogacy remains illegal (due to concerns regarding the exploitation of women and children), and in NSW, this includes procuring commercial surrogacy arrangements overseas. Greenwich has long been an advocate for surrogacy.

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Peak psychiatry body’s landmark shift away from ‘gender affirming care’ for kids

Posted on News · December 27, 2023 11:57 AM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

The Royal Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) have released a statement backing a holistic approach to managing gender dysphoria in young people and children rather than the gender affirmation model, in which a child’s perceived gender is unquestioningly affirmed by doctors.

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The vilification of Moira Deeming: When common sense clashes with the authoritarian left

Posted on News · February 26, 2023 2:30 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Free speech and debate are important cornerstones of democracy. 

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Victorian Council’s plan to de-sex toilets is just another example of women’s rights under attack

Posted on News · February 03, 2023 1:06 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Hobsons Bay Council is the latest municipality to implement woke Victorian government legislation at the expense of ratepayers and the safety of women and children as they embark on a multimillion-dollar plan to de-sex public toilets.

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Sex Self-ID laws are incompatible with efforts to end violence against women

Posted on News · January 04, 2023 6:35 AM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

In October 2022, the Federal Government and state and territory governments released the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032. 

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Hawthorn Football Club scandal: We need to talk about abortion coercion

Posted on News · October 05, 2022 5:11 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

A review into the culture of AFL Hawthorn Football Club, which surfaced a couple of weeks ago, has raised serious allegations of bullying, abuse and racism from the club's hierarchy. The most harrowing accusation is that the partners of football players were pressured and coerced into terminating their pregnancies.

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The debate on ‘gender affirming’ care is long overdue

Posted on News · August 31, 2022 4:45 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Australia's 'gender affirming' model of care for treating patients with gender dysphoria will be tested with a landmark case in the NSW Supreme Court. 

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Why has Victoria embraced an industry that trades in misogyny and violence?

Posted on News · September 28, 2021 2:02 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

New South Wales model of decriminalisation and deregulation of prostitution has failed to protect workers in the sex industry while empowering profiteers and criminals, so why is Victoria going down the same path?  

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