A Tasmanian council has been bombarded with phone calls and emails after a newspaper published a letter describing an incident caused by a man entering female change rooms at a swimming pool — except the incident did not happen.
The letter, published on Tuesday in Launceston's Examiner, was quickly re-shared on social media by trans-exclusionary groups, with one post viewed 74,000 times on Twitter and another shared 160 times on Facebook.
