The McGowan government announced last Thursday that it would introduce LGBTQ+ conversion laws following the tabling of a scathing parliamentary report on what is alleged to have occurred at the long established Christian rehabilitation centre, Esther House.

The Australian Christian Lobby today has called on the McGowan Government to ensure that its proposed LGBT conversion laws do not prevent doctors, psychologist and counsellors and faith groups from providing patient led, evidence based, proven therapy for people struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity.

A fact check of the Australian Christian Lobby’s campaign to protect parental rights has confirmed Tasmanians are right to fear a legislative ban on “conversion practices” planned by the Rockliff Government.

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In his 2018 election victory speech, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews announced his intention to make Victoria the nation’s “most progressive state”.

The WA Attorney General, John Quigley tabled the Law Reform Commission’s Report on its Review of the Equal Opportunity Act in the state Parliament on 16^th August. It is of great concern to the Christian community that in tabling the report, the Attorney General stated that the McGowan Government had ‘broadly accepted’ its 163 recommendations.

Workplaces are becoming uncomfortable for anyone who believes that the promotion of trans ideology and concepts has the potential to undermine and replace women’s and girl’s sex based rights and has the potential to cause lifelong harm.

Sydney woman, Jay Langadinos, is suing her former psychiatrist for professional negligence over transgender treatment she began as a teenager. By the age of 22, Ms Langadinos had her breasts and womb surgically removed in an attempt to identify as male. Now 31 and no longer identifying as male, she faces the rest of her life sterile and with regret.

The story of yet another young Australian man falling victim to swift progression through gender affirmation therapy strikes at the heart of the current debate in Tasmania over the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) report which recommends the very treatment that has left Ollie Davies sterilized, and his partner devastated.

Reports of distraught parents facing prosecution under Victorian law for failing to agree to potentially harmful treatments for their children including chest-binding, hormone blockers and sex-change surgery should sound alarm bells for Tasmanian parents. The Tasmanian government is currently considering recommendations from the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute for similar ‘conversion therapy’ legislation.