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.

Personal stories of gender dysphoric young people being led onto a pathway of experimental, irreversible and damaging treatments were heard in Tasmania’s parliament on 23 November.

Tasmanian Greens Leader, Cassy O'Connor MP, responded publicly today to the Australian Christian Lobby's (ACL) advertisement in the Tasmanian Mercury newspaper (copy attached). The advertisement in question details significant opposition to aspects of the Tasmanian Law Reform Commission’s (TLRI) proposed laws that would criminalise parents for counselling their children not to pursue a transgender pathway.

State-wide polling has shown three quarters of Tasmanian voters reject the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) “Anti-Parents’ Rights” proposal being considered by the Tasmanian government.

‘A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.’ John 13:34

There is no greater way to show love to our neighbours than to give them the greatest gift, the hope of Jesus and the blessing of eternal life with Him! What a life-giving and life-changing gift that is!

The recently released advice by the Roman Catholics Bishops Conference in relation to how their schools should care for gender confused children is a major development in the debate on gender confusion, and the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute's recommendations. 

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.

The news that parents in Victoria are distraught and facing prosecutions because of the Victorian laws which prohibit proper counselling for gender confused children must cause the Tasmanian Government to reject the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute’s recommendations for similar laws in Tasmania.

With 1000 families expected to join the medical negligence lawsuit against the recently shut-down UK Tavistock Gender Clinic, there are renewed calls for Tasmanian MPs to reject any so-called conversion therapy legislation that would mandate the now discredited affirmation therapy model of treating gender dysphoric children.