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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An "extreme sport." That's how child psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer describes her four-year fight to blow the whistle on vested interests in our healthcare system. Why did it take a psychiatrist to play it? Thank you Dr Spencer for standing up for children's rights to safe healthcare.

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Trick Question: On what page does this 2011 AHRC Consultation Report engage with the threats to women’s rights posed by privileging gender identity over sex in discrimination law, as identified by Erinyes Autonomous Activist Lesbians in their submission to AHRC’s own consultation?

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Are you concerned about the re-education campaign being driven by AHPRA, AHRC and the ALRC to destroy girl's and women's rights under the pretext of the ideas of the Yogyakarta Principles? Why not consider joining us if you agree with our manifesto: af4wr.org/our-manifesto/

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On Wednesday 13 May at 6pm AEST, AF4WR co-convenor Bronwyn Winter will be launching I Wish I was a Lesbian edited by Angela C. Wild and published by Spinifex Press. Click here to register. www.spinifexpress.com.au/events/i-wis...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"Under the banner of “human rights”, high-profile and heavily resourced stakeholders are advancing the interests of a sexual rights industry that profits from the [sex-based] exploitation of women while erasing women as a political and legal category." athena-forum.eu/updates/irel...

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What has happened at the Australian Psychological Society keeps their patients in the dark, exploiting their professional power of them, but for who's benefit? Not their members'. #psychologist substack.com/@genderclini...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hundreds of women have experienced abuse at the hands of this medical student. Caught three times and he still has no conviction. Yet this type of crime is a precursor to far more serious offending such as experienced by Giselle Pelicot youtube.com/watch?v=LOlr...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Registrations are now open for the IWD Sydney conference, 5-7 March 2026. Contact iwd@af4wr.org.au for more information. You can also now buy tickets in our Sunny Sinny Sisterhood Raffle. Great prizes donated by members of feminist community in Australia and the UK. www.raffletix.com.au/iwd2026.

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IWD 2026 Raffle

Australian Feminists for Women's Rights (AF4WR) Inc | IWD 2026 Raffle | Drawn on: Saturday, 7 March 2026 4:00 PM

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We will remember Renee Nicole Good. May she rest in peace. This is male violence with presidential imprimatur. This is not Afghanistan, this is not Iran, this is the so-called leading country of the so-called free world. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

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‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent

Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in Minneapolis with her partner just blocks from where she was shot.

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Women were there, right at the beginning of the UN shaping of human rights. How many of their names do we remember now? www.un.org/sites/un2.un...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Today is Human Rights Day. Last year, the Oz government buried the report of its own human rights inquiry. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12... The report, and our submission, had recommended a Federal Human Rights Act af4wr.org/wp-content/u.... So we still have no protection of our sex-based rights.

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Australia’s human rights report has been quietly buried

The world marks Human Rights Day this Wednesday 10 December. But a comprehensive parliamentary report calling for a national Human Rights Act remains unanswered. Its silence speaks volumes about the g...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Another win for women in the UK. When will the Australian political class and judiciary wake up?

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This Wednesday 10 December is international Human Rights Day. See this statement by UN Women. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor... (Unfortunately, this laudable statement is undermined by UN Women’s position that males with a gender identity are women.)

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Statement: Human rights, our everyday essentials | UN Women – Headquarters

UN Women statement for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2025

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The 2025 US HHS Report found serious conflicts of interest driving medical bodies to suppress the 2024 UK Cass Report. It is not harmful to discuss it!! #NHMRC

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We have reached a point where identifying the sex of a person can lead to multiple legal cases and potential financial ruin. This is why more women don't speak up. We stand with Kirralie and every woman punished for speaking the truth. #Gaslighting #auspol #CoerciveControl #Equality #women

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Using hate crime law instead of discrimination law to protect people identifying as trans: "As far as I'm concerned you are giving people already misusing the criminal justice process which appears not to have insulated itself against this misuse giving that group of people an additional weapon."

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch. Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK

Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November. Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08.... Sure, Richard. Really cool.

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Joint Statement: Civil Society Calls for Accountability in Australia’s Military Trade

Australia’s military trade is not transparent. Policy experts describe defence export systems as “at best opaque and at worst negligently poor." Australia has a legal and ethical obligation to ensure ...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor... Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.

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Statement: UN Women calls for urgent protection of women and girls in El Fasher, Sudan | UN Women – Headquarters

UN Women expresses deep alarm and condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing attacks against women, girls, and civilians in and around El Fasher.

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document | Moira Donegan

Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered up

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders? Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights? See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post. ##restorewomensrights womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...

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Minister for Women: Who are the real stakeholders?

The Minister for Women, Senator Katy Gallagher, has referenced the range of stakeholders she engages with on a day-to-day basis when shaping policy that affects women’s health, safety, privacy, and…

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen? Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*. See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We need to #restorewomensrights. This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation. Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it? archive.is/2025.08.06-1...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls' and women's participation. Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it? archive.is/2025.08.06-1...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Background on Tickle v Giggle case (Sall Grover’s appeal being heard by full bench of Federal Court in w/b 4 August). archive.md/nw8PA? You can also support Sall Grover’s fundraiser for her court fees here: gigglecrowdfund.com.

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This. (Those who read The Australian yesterday may recognise the photo.)

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Unwitting or not, it is certainly a manual for doctor-assisted self-harm, and it wouldn’t be the first time in medical history we’ve seen it, particularly as concerns medical harms done to girls and women.

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

“One does not make a baby like one makes a cake”: read our submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of Australian surrogacy legislation. af4wr.org/wp-content/u...

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The fireys, blue collar unions – and some male politicians – continue to live up to their reputation for overt sexism. The slogan ‘ditch the bitch’ directed at Victorian premier Jacinta Allan echoes that levelled at Julia Gillard when she was PM. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Disgusting’ slogan apparently directed at Victorian premier seen at rally attended by Brad Battin and union boss

‘Ditch the bitch’ was emblazoned on a fire truck at a rally against the state’s new emergency services levy

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

For once our courts seem prepared to listen to women. The Federal Court full bench has granted leave to the Lesbian Action Group to intervene in favour of women-only spaces during the upcoming hearing of Sall Grover’s appeal of Justice Bromwich’s 2024 decision. feministlegal.org/protect-our-...

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Protect our spaces from trans women: lesbian group | The Australian

Female-only spaces for biological women must be protected by law because lesbians face unwanted pressure to have sex with trans women, says group supporting Giggle app founder Sall Grover. In a rar…

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Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights @ozwimmsrights.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This fact from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age yesterday is from NSW before it introduced 'gender self-ID' legislation this week. Has it been impossible to count male childcare workers in Victoria because of their 'gender self ID' legislation? #safeguarding #childsexualabuse #auspol