The Victorian study shows that issues including violence and mental health concerns are affecting the LGBTIQ community.
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Federal government refuses action on trans workplace discrimination
Advocates are looking to Labor and unions.
‘Systems of coercion’: Survivors demand stronger bans on conversion
“Even well-intentioned laws can miss some nuanced ways in which conversion ideology and practices occur.”
NSW leaders urged to support trans kids in response to erasure bill
“The Education Amendment Bill would effectively restrict the ability of these students to attend school.”
Conversion therapy survivors demand Queensland law amendment
"It is actually dangerous legislation."
Queensland anti-LGBTQ conversion ban slammed as ‘next to useless’
Advocates say they will lobby other states to enact stronger laws.
Queensland to ban anti-LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’
“You can't be fixed because you are not broken.”
Australia set to wipe out hepatitis C this decade
New drugs and government strategies have Australia on track to eliminate the virus.
Report calls for forced intersex surgery to be criminalised
A new legal report has approved Tasmania's gender reforms and called for action to end non-consensual surgery.
Backlash against UK government over plan to attack trans rights
Thousands have voiced their opposition to plans to exclude trans women from women’s spaces.
Australia now behind US in LGBTIQ workplace rights, advocates say
Trans and intersex workers are not protected by the Fair Work Act.
Call to scrap religious discrimination bill following US civil rights ruling
Pressure is continuing for the Australian government to scrap the controversial bill.
LGBTQ people protected from job discrimination: US Supreme Court
The landmark ruling has found that civil rights protections apply to orientation and trans status.
Trump administration removes trans health protections
The move was announced in the middle of Pride month and on the anniversary of the Pulse massacre.
MP supports transphobic conversion therapy, calls ban ‘child abuse’
Experts worldwide have condemned anti-LGBTQ conversion as pointless and dangerous.
Sex workers celebrate International Whores’ Day with online rally
With public gatherings impossible due to the pandemic, activists have taken to social media.