BDMRR Submission Guide
This guide is intended as an update on the BDMRR Bill, and covers the important opportunity in August/September to make final submissions on the Bill. Continue reading BDMRR Submission Guide
This guide is intended as an update on the BDMRR Bill, and covers the important opportunity in August/September to make final submissions on the Bill. Continue reading BDMRR Submission Guide
Gender Minorities Aotearoa received the award for Health and Wellbeing for Wellington City at the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards 2021. Continue reading GMA Wins Health and Wellbeing Award
Our 2021 “Transgender” poster. Continue reading Transgender Poster
Once the BDMRR Bill is released, we need transgender people and supporters to make submissions supporting legal gender recognition provisions that are based on self-determination. Continue reading BDMRR Action 2021: We Need You
This course is designed to increase your knowledge of issues affecting transgender people in Aotearoa, and to build your confidence in speaking about these issues and supporting transgender people. Continue reading Supporting Transgender People: Online Course
In our “Be an Ally 101” we discuss how common trans people are, what their lives are like, how to support a trans person you know, how to support trans rights, and where to find out more. Article, video, and booklet format. Continue reading Be An Ally 101
A small number of people “come out” as transgender, and later realise they aren’t, or decide that the safety risks for them are too high. They may decide to outwardly take on a cisgender identity while inwardly maintaining a transgender identity (“go back into the closet”), or they may have a change of gender identity – affirming that a cisgender identity is the one that feels best for them. Continue reading Detransition or Retransition Support
One aspect of having healthier, safer, and more productive arguments is planning how to argue. Partners can choose a time when there is no stress and argument to be had, and sit down together to talk about how they can have better arguments. Continue reading A Good Argument: how to fight without fighting
If a person has experienced trauma in the past, such as being the victim/survivor of sexual violence, they may have very strong emotions such as anger or fear which are associated with an element present when the initial trauma happened. This element – or trigger – can be anything from a smell to a certain word or phrase, it could be a particular sexual activity or position, or any number of other elements. Continue reading Trauma triggers
Gender Minorities Aotearoa is holding some absolutely amazing creative workshops will at Out in the City; Micheal Fowler Centre, 111 Wakefield street Wellington, Saturday March 27th. These include a Zine making workshop at 11.30am and Pause Blur Grass Witch at 1.30pm. It’s free to attend these workshops but you are welcome to give a donation. We’re looking forward to seeing you! Continue reading Creative Workshops at Out in the City