Woman challenged high court after being banned from hosting lesbian-only events

Lesbians who wanted to host a lesbian-only event were told they couldn’t because that would be clearly discriminatory.

Dean said the event would exclude men and trans women from participating.

“Last year, the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner urged people to ‘require people to provide detailed information about their bodies in order to gain access to the proposed event’, thereby allowing event applications to be filed in other states. It ruled that it went further than the exemptions granted,” he said.

“But now event organizer Jessica Hoyle is preparing to take this to high court.

Dean discussed the issue with Launceston residents, who said the group of trans activists “retained the rights of everyone else.”