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Sunday 31 March is Transgender Day of Visibility, an international celebration of transgender and gender diverse lives, identities, achievements and triumphs. The day was founded in 2009 by US activist Rachel Crandall. While the long running Transgender Day of Remembrance is marked around the world in November, Cundall wanted to create a celebratory day that put […]

EXCLUSIVE Patrick Lenton has made his mark as an author, journalist and editor, and now he’s got a brand-new project that looks to tackle the rising levels of misinformation and disinformation about LGBTIQA+ people and their communities. The former editor of Junkee has just launched The LGBTIQA+ Media Watch Project, an extension of his online newsletter […]

Senator Pauline Hanson’s latest attempt to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the treatment of adolescents who experience gender dysphoria has failed. On Wednesday the One Nation leader put forward a motion calling for the Community Affairs References Committee asking them to look into a range of issues relating to transgender health care. Senator Hanson’s motion lists […]

After close to two hours of debate, discussion and a dressing down from parliamentary colleagues, newly signed up One Nation MP Ben Dawkins stood alone as the Legislative Council voted on his motion about people who are transgender. The Liberals and Nationals didn’t vote. Leaving the chambers as the bells tolled. Labor, Legalise Cannabis, and […]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has announced that she will push again for a senate inquiry into transgender healthcare based on the decision from England’s National Health Service to stop prescribing puberty blocker medication outside of research trials. Hanson took to social media to announce the motion she’ll be putting forward to the senate and […]

The Australian Press Council has found The Australian newspaper failed to meet expected standards of journalism with its reporting when it published an opinion piece from Patrick Parkinson, an emeritus professor of law at the University of Queensland and a former chair of the Family Law Council. The article was published on 13 June 2023, headed Gender affirming’ care is destroying vulnerable […]

A new study conducted at the Child and Adolescent Health Service Gender Diversity Service at Perth Children’s Hospital has shown the rate of patients who choose to reidentify with their sex registered at birth is very low. The study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on 4th March 2024 showed that 5.3% of young people reidentified with […]