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Tasmanian LGBTI advocate Rodney Croome has slammed a planned federal override of Tasmania’s offensive language laws announced today by Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter. The override, …

“I can’t see how one would get through such a process and come out of it with a poster that is at all inclusive.”

The Tasmanian ad lumps together trans law reform with child abuse under the policy of “protecting your children”.

“This is a historic day for transgender and gender diverse people, not only in Tasmania but around the world.”

The reforms, which include optional gender markers on birth certificates, passed the upper house late on Thursday evening, sending the legislation back to the lower house for assent next week.

Trans advocates have hit back at attacks on the reforms made by the new group’s spokesperson Ben Smith, who works for the Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart.

Trans advocates called for Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert to resign over his comments, saying they showed “an alarming level of incompetence in his misinformed attacks on the state’s proposed birth certificate reform.”

Morrison took to Twitter this morning to condemn the reforms, which include making gender markers optional on birth certificates, as “ridiculous”.

The stickers, which are shaped like penises, bear the words “women don’t have penises”.

“For the Government to claim that this reform has been sprung on Tasmania and there is need for further consultation is misleading and just an excuse for unnecessary delay.”