Takataapui, Transgender, and Intersex New Zealand
The Youth '12 survey of 8,500 secondary school students in NZ showed 1.2% identified themselves as transgender. With a population of 4.693 million, 1.2% = 56,316 trans people in NZ. A further 2.5% reported being unsure of their gender. Make the spaces you are in be safe spaces to come out.
Please take time this weekend to fill in the Counting Ourselves survey that we helped to develop, so we have large scale national data on takataapui, trans, and intersex people's health.
Welcome to our Top 10 for Youth and Whanau! The process of working out your gender, as well as telling your family, can be a tricky one. Sometimes our whanau struggle to understand or accept this too. Sometimes they really want to support us, but they don't know the right words, or have a really good way to think about it yet. This post is a collection of great reading material and videos for you and your whanau, which might help to make the process easier.
Research reports that are based in Aotearoa New Zealand or are relevant to us here.
Information resources for students and schools
The groundbreaking report on experiences of sexual violence amongst tertiary students from Thursdays in Black Aotearoa is out. The report, 'In Our Own Words', is the first fully gender minority inclusive research report on sexual violence in this country.
