The government has finally listened and agreed to reinstate sex-segregated protections in our prisons. It has been a long and draining struggle but I am relieved we reached this outcome together. We must remain vigilant to ensure these safety standards are actually upheld.
November 1, 2021
Final supporters
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled:
We, the undersigned, say:
The Western Australian Department of Justice recently implemented a policy (on November 23rd 2020) which seeks to effectively remove sex-segregation policies and protections from within WA penal facilities on the basis of "self-identification" regarding "gender identity." The 'Commissioner’s Operating Policy and Procedure (COPP) 4.6 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Prisoners' and COPP 7.5 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Detainees (Banksia Hill Detention Centre) circumvent state and federal laws (Sex Discrimination Act, CEDAW, Gender Reassignment Act, etc.) and breach international treaties and agreements (Bangkok Rules, Nelson Mandela Rules) that Australia is signatory to and/or committed to.
Prisons and other penal facilities are legally bound to being sex-segregated. That is a human right for girls and women (biological females).
Staff at facilities which house male and female detainees & prisoners in separate units & wings (but within the same facility) cannot provide the dignity, privacy and safety that all prisoners have the right to, especially females.
We call on our State Representatives:
The Honourable the Premier, Mark McGowan
The Honourable the Minister for Corrective Services, Fran Logan
The Honourable the Minster for Women’s Interests, Simone McGurk
The Honourable the Attorney General, John Quigley
The Honourable the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ben Wyatt
to immediately address how this violation of human rights can occur within their government and to stop conflating "gender identity" with biological sex.
Now we ask the Legislative Assembly -
To immediately repeal [WA] Commissioner’s Operating Policy and Procedure (COPP) 4.6 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Prisoners and COPP 7.5 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Detainees (Banksia Hill Detention Centre).
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 9, 2021
September 7, 2021
The climb has been tough and the progress is slower than I hoped for today. Please put this in front of anyone else who understands why sex-segregated prisons are non-negotiable so we can finally reach that next milestone.
Reached 100 supporters
December 11, 2020
87 Comments
Keep men out of women’s prisons. I can’t believe its 2020 and we have to fight for single sex spaces for vulnerable women, including indigenous women who are overrepresented in our prison system for lower grade “crimes”.
Most women in prison were sexually assaulted by men, often first abused as children. These women shoukd be accorded the privacy, safety and dignity of only being incarcerated with other females. Males should not be housed in women’s prisons, no matter how those males “identify”.
Keep prisons single sex. Women have the right to single sex spaces that protect their dignity, privacy, and safety. Male pattern violence does not stop when a man takes on a gender identity. Protect women's sex-based rights!
Women’s sex-based rights must be protected- female inmates should not be housed with inmates who are biological males (many of whom are intact males and pose a threat to women’s safety - we have already seen rapes and sexual assaults in Canada, UK and Ireland).
Will crimes committed by transwomen be recorded as crimes committed by women, and how will this affect the statistics on, and our subsequent understanding of, important issues like domestic violence, rape and pedophilia?
This proposal completely disgusts me & should not have even be a consideration
Biological women only should be in prisons meant solely for them and not mixed in with violent, dangerous trans
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The government has finally listened and agreed to reinstate sex-segregated protections in our prisons. It has been a long and draining struggle but I am relieved we reached this outcome together. We must remain vigilant to ensure these safety standards are actually upheld.
November 1, 2021
Final supporters
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled:
We, the undersigned, say:
The Western Australian Department of Justice recently implemented a policy (on November 23rd 2020) which seeks to effectively remove sex-segregation policies and protections from within WA penal facilities on the basis of "self-identification" regarding "gender identity." The 'Commissioner’s Operating Policy and Procedure (COPP) 4.6 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Prisoners' and COPP 7.5 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Detainees (Banksia Hill Detention Centre) circumvent state and federal laws (Sex Discrimination Act, CEDAW, Gender Reassignment Act, etc.) and breach international treaties and agreements (Bangkok Rules, Nelson Mandela Rules) that Australia is signatory to and/or committed to.
Prisons and other penal facilities are legally bound to being sex-segregated. That is a human right for girls and women (biological females).
Staff at facilities which house male and female detainees & prisoners in separate units & wings (but within the same facility) cannot provide the dignity, privacy and safety that all prisoners have the right to, especially females.
We call on our State Representatives:
The Honourable the Premier, Mark McGowan
The Honourable the Minister for Corrective Services, Fran Logan
The Honourable the Minster for Women’s Interests, Simone McGurk
The Honourable the Attorney General, John Quigley
The Honourable the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ben Wyatt
to immediately address how this violation of human rights can occur within their government and to stop conflating "gender identity" with biological sex.
Now we ask the Legislative Assembly -
To immediately repeal [WA] Commissioner’s Operating Policy and Procedure (COPP) 4.6 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Prisoners and COPP 7.5 Trans, Gender Diverse and Intersex Detainees (Banksia Hill Detention Centre).
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 9, 2021
September 7, 2021
The climb has been tough and the progress is slower than I hoped for today. Please put this in front of anyone else who understands why sex-segregated prisons are non-negotiable so we can finally reach that next milestone.
Reached 100 supporters
December 11, 2020
87 Comments
It must be possible to provide separate facilities for transgender etc. inmates, without placing biological males in intimate facilities with biological females.
Keep men out of women’s prisons. I can’t believe its 2020 and we have to fight for single sex spaces for vulnerable women, including indigenous women who are overrepresented in our prison system for lower grade “crimes”.
Most women in prison were sexually assaulted by men, often first abused as children. These women shoukd be accorded the privacy, safety and dignity of only being incarcerated with other females. Males should not be housed in women’s prisons, no matter how those males “identify”.
Keep prisons single sex. Women have the right to single sex spaces that protect their dignity, privacy, and safety. Male pattern violence does not stop when a man takes on a gender identity. Protect women's sex-based rights!
Women’s sex-based rights must be protected- female inmates should not be housed with inmates who are biological males (many of whom are intact males and pose a threat to women’s safety - we have already seen rapes and sexual assaults in Canada, UK and Ireland).
Will crimes committed by transwomen be recorded as crimes committed by women, and how will this affect the statistics on, and our subsequent understanding of, important issues like domestic violence, rape and pedophilia?
This proposal completely disgusts me & should not have even be a consideration
Biological women only should be in prisons meant solely for them and not mixed in with violent, dangerous trans
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It must be possible to provide separate facilities for transgender etc. inmates, without placing biological males in intimate facilities with biological females.