Report Confirms Discrimination Against Councillor Over Transgender Views

Published on July 3, 2024

A political stoush has been brewing over the past nine months at Hobart City Council over the simple matter of hiring a venue. In September 2023, Councillor Louise Elliot applied to book the city’s Town Hall ballroom to hold an “invite-only community forum on women’s rights and free speech.” The event would feature herself and two other prominent figures of Australia’s women’s rights movement, Victorian Independent Liberal MP Moira Deeming and lawyer Katherine Deves. The booking request fell flat. Council’s staff blocked the application, citing concerns that the event would discuss “political views about transgender people and their participation in sport and access to facilities.”...

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