Tasmania’s new bill deletes “homosexuality” and “bisexuality” from the Anti-Discrimination Act, and puts therapists, parents and young people at risk.
Edited by Drew Hutton and Libby Connors, this new collection from Spinifex brings together fourteen chapters from Australian and overseas writers. They cover community, therapy, theory, society, politics and law, and together they trace how gender ideology reshaped a lesbian and gay movement, captured institutions, and made its way into Australian law.
Tasmania's Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill was expanded after public consultation.
One addition was never put to the public: it rewrites sexual orientation from same-sex to "same gender", and it leaves counsellors exposed.
The Medical Services Advisory Committee is consulting on Application 1754, which seeks around 30 new Medicare items for gender surgeries in adults. LGB Alliance Australia has recommended MSAC decline the listing.
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