As I reported many moons ago, Tasmania’s public libraries were going all-in on the grooming agenda, hosting ‘Drag Queen Story Hours’, which, as their founder openly stated, are intended to groom the youngest children into ‘queerness’. Naturally, the sort of left-wing, middle-class, university-educated females, who are so corrosive to Western democracy, were all ga-ga for it.
Also naturally, they’re determined not to let anyone challenge their creepy woke agenda.
A prominent women’s rights group has been permanently banned from public libraries in Tasmania after its forums opposing radical trans ideology were deemed to be in breach of Libraries Tasmania’s diversity and inclusion policies.
So, diversity of everything except thought. Inclusion of everyone who ticks the correct ‘rainbow’ boxes: people who actually know what a woman is need not apply.
Attempts by Women Speak Tasmania to hire library venues have been repeatedly turned down, most recently this week after a bid to book a meeting room at the Huonville Library – for a discussion on safeguarding children in schools – was deemed to violate diversity policies.
If you want to ban people discussing safeguarding children in schools, what does that say about you?
WST had planned to discuss a recent story in the Australian revealing that children were being taught “gender identity ideology” in Tasmanian primary schools without the knowledge or consent of parents, with one mother revealing her daughter – who had undertaken the sex education program over a period of six years – now identifies as a boy.
“We’ve got the floodgates opening from parents here wanting information and we wanted to have a meeting where people could ask questions and discuss these issues,” said WST director Elizabeth Caballero.
The group has previously been banned from holding meetings at libraries in Burnie and Devonport because staff or customers might “feel unsafe or hurt”.
This is the cry-bully thug’s veto that’s the go-to of the woke left. Oddly, I can’t think of a single incident where women have attacked trannies – but violent trannies have repeatedly attacked women in public safes. So we know who really feels unsafe.
The ban comes amid rising concern about freedom of expression in public libraries, after the City of Melbourne was accused of submitting to pressure from violent trans activists when it cancelled a venue booking at Docklands library for a forum featuring gender ideology critic Helen Joyce.
Libraries Tasmania runs the State Library and 46 public libraries across Tasmania.
The other institution that has been captured by the troons is the ‘anti-discrimination’ troughocracy, who are lying through their teeth.
Commissioner Pia Saturno accepted the claim by Libraries Tasmania that it could not accept the booking while the government was in caretaker mode because the event was considered “a political activity for the discussion of political beliefs”, including a call for a parliamentary inquiry into the Tasmanian Gender Service.
“It appears that the true and genuine reason for the cancellation of the booking was because Libraries Tasmania was in caretaker mode,” Ms Saturno ruled.
So, what’s their excuse, now that the government is safely re-elected?
In the meantime, WST was rejected a second time by Libraries Tasmania when it tried to book a room at the Devonport Library in February 2025 for a forum to discuss how gender law reforms impacted women.
There was no caretaker mode then – no election was called for another four months.
When WST complained to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner a second time that it was being subject to discrimination over political opinions, it was again rejected.
Ms Saturno ruled that the WST event “may not constitute political belief or activity”, despite having previously accepted Libraries Tasmania’s claim that the Burnie event was properly blocked during caretaker mode because it was “a political activity”.
Where is the Tasmanian government in all this? Minister for Education and Children and Youth Jo Palmer has been studiously silent.
Libraries Tasmania referred questions from the Australian to the education department, which did not reply by deadline.
Attorney-General Guy Barnett, who has previously appeared with Dr Caballero, has issued a statement that he is “taking further advice on the Libraries Tasmania matter”.
“As Attorney-General, I support freedom of speech,” he said.
At least some branches of the Returned Services League aren’t being bullied by the men in dresses lobby: Devonport RSL stepped in and gave WST space for their event.
