Kia ora koutou e te whanau, this year Gender Minorities Aotearoa and supporters will be walking in the Auckland Pride March, which will be held on February 9th at 4.30pm, starting at Albert Park on Princes Street, Auckland. We will meet and gather at a rally point to be set soon so watch our social media for updates!
We will be marching for trans and intersex health care (including takataapui and non-binary folks), and will provide gorgeous placards in the trans flag colours, to paint your messages on! All supporters of trans and intersex rights are welcome to join us!! Medical and other costumes welcome!
Placard Painting Day
What: This event is for creating placards to take on the pride march the following week. Our theme is Trans Healthcare Now!
Who: Gender Minorities Aotearoa and supporters. All trans (including non-binary and takataapui folks) and intersex people, rainbow folks, whanau, friends, and other supporters are welcome! We would love your support and assistance!
All materials provided.
Bring your freshest ideas for slogans and be there!
Many trans people are passionate about equality, which can lead them to join community groups, unions, or protests. This pamphlet gives legal information for trans people interacting with Police and the criminal justice system when protesting, if detained, and while being processed within the criminal justice system.
In 2017 we worked with a local anti-war protest group called Peace Action Wellington, to help them clarify the legal rights of transgender protesters interacting with Police. We addressed common questions for trans people, such as ”do I have to give my legal name to Police, if it’s my deadname?” and ”If I’m strip searched, what gender will the Police officer be?”.
You can find the answers to these questions in our booklet ‘Being trans and protesting”.
According to international research, 15% of trans people run away from home or are kicked out because of their gender. Those rejected by family are twice as likely to have experienced homelessness (40%) as those who were not rejected (22%).
Trans people are routinely discriminated against in housing.
1 in every 100 New Zealanders lives in severe housing deprivation (1%). Yet for trans people, going by international statistics, the figure is 22 to 40 per 100 (22-40%).
Update: NZ data (Counting Ourselves) is out now – confirming that in NZ, 1 in 4 trans people of colour experience homelessness (around 25%), and 1 in 5 trans people more broadly (around 20%).
We run the national peer to peer trans and rainbow housing network, Rainbow Housing NZ, which assists trans people who may otherwise be homeless into safe and appropriate housing.
Help to end trans homelessness – offer your rental property, spare room in your flat, or other accommodation through transgender housing networks like ours.
Contact us for non-discrimination policy development at your real estate agency, offer special discounts through us on your mobile homes, write to your local MP and tell them to make transgender housing a priority.Even just accepting, talking with, and supporting the young trans people in your family or extended family can make all the difference.
You can click here to join the Rainbow Housing Network, or click here to donate today and help end trans homelessness.
Sources: 2013 Census NZ, US Transgender Survey (25,000 trans people).
We’re very pleased to announce that the national guidelines for trans healthcare in Aotearoa have been released, and can be found here. We will be updating links across our website to help facilitate their use.
Great work from all involved in their development, we are looking forward to supporting healthcare providers in putting these guidelines into action in their practices. We encourage all transgender, intersex, and takataapui patients to download a copy and pass it along to their healthcare providers.
More information on gender affirming health care can be found in the national database by clicking on the main menu.
