FQT 12 February 2022

Feminist Question Time with speakers from New Zealand, Australia and UK Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. This week’s speakers: Isla McGregor - Australia Censorship of GC women in Tasmania - I have been organising and campaigning on women's sex based rights since 2012 and since that time have been shocked at the consistent level of bias in the press and especially the ABC and SBS in Australia. Through organising I have become aware of the ideological capture of many institutions and NGO's which I otherwise would have thought would have been willing to look impartially at all sides of a debate as a matter in the public interest. Isla will talk about some of the organisations and individuals who have actively campaigned to prevent women's views from being fairly presented at public forums and in the media both in Tasmania and nationally. Bio: Isla has worked as an advocate for whistleblowers in Tasmania and Australia since the 1990's. Isla met Sheila Jeffrey's in 2012 when she worked on the campaign against the push for full decriminalisation of the sex trade in Tasmania. In 2018, Isla with several other women, set up Women Speak Tasmania to oppose self ID legislation in Tasmania. Marg Curnow & Tighe Instone - New Zealand Lava (Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa) - We will talk about why LAVA was first formed in 1988 and how AotearoaNZ has gone from being the first country in the world where women successfully fought for the vote (1893) and the first country to have the word lesbian in its legislation (thanks to the work of LAVA) to being a country which has now one of the highest (if not the highest) use of puberty blockers and where women's sex-based rights have all but disappeared. Bio: Tighe was one of the original founders of LAVA (Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa) back in 1988. Marg was the person who set in motion the reforming of LAVA in August 2020. LAVA is committed to fighting for lesbian visibility and sex based women's rights. We are same-sex attracted, not same-gender attracted and we reject “gender identity” as a dangerous ideology that denies the reality of biological sex.For more about LAVA see www.lava.nz Sheila Jeffreys - UK The Insult of Transgenderism For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com