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Local LGBTQIA+ advocacy consortium Rainbow Futures WA (RFWA) have welcomed the Cook Government’s announcement of gender-focused law reform, but say WA still has much to do.
In a significant stride towards fostering inclusivity and safeguarding human rights, Queensland has now implemented new amendments to its Anti-Discrimination Act that will help protect the LGBTQIA+ community. Effective as …
Olympic legend Ian Thorpe has joined a new national campaign calling for urgent federal reform to protect women and LGBTQ+ students and staff in religious schools.
Just.Equal’s Brian Greig says law reform proposed by the Cook Government is “inadequate and retrograde.”
30 April 2024 – Welfare, health, family, faith and women’s groups have joined forces with LGBTIQ+ groups to call on the state government to back the NSW Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 and remove legal discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people. Signed by 80 organisations, the letter to NSW Premier Chris Minns includes the Australian Services Union, […]
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A new meta-analysis of surgical outcomes suggests that gender affirming surgeries have some of the lowest regret rates of any kind of surgery. Gender affirming surgery refers to a variety …
ACON has announced that they are opening a new LGBTQ+ health centre in Sydney, called The Kaleido Centre, in spring 2024. Built on Gadigal land in South Eveleigh’s Belltower Building, …
Western Australia’s Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has dismissed calls from the Liberal party to ban puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones from being available to young people experiencing gender dysphoria. On Monday Liberal leader Libby Mettam announced that if her party wins government at the 2025 state election, they will immediately ban the medical treatment being […]
WA Liberal leader Libby Metham has revealed that her party is yet to reach a position on whether they will support proposed legislation to remove the WA Gender Reassignment Board. Western Australia is the only state to retain the antiquated process that forces transgender people to prove they have undergone medical treatment and publicly lived […]
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has insisted that her party’s new policy that calls for a ban on transgender youth being able to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is based on science and not ideology. The Liberal leader announced the party’s new policy this morning via an interview with The West Australian newspaper. The […]
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