Last day of Trans Awareness Week (in Australia),
Three most vulnerable sectors for trans persons are Health/Medicine, Sports and Schools:
On health:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2019/release/healthcare-failing-transgender-people2
Overview in Australia:
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/challenging-five-years-of-transphobia
Aust. Politics, reversing a wrong:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-08/transgender-students-teachers-excluded-from-school-protections/100812354
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LBGTI+ #AusPol #Health #Education
The purpose of anti-discrimination legislation is to prevent harm and abuse of individuals, groups and the development of toxic communities. Recognition that universal human rights serves to protect everyone, not just a particular group.
To affirm that harm and abuse is not justifiable.
So it’s extremely disappointing when politicians take advantage of misconceptions within religious and/or feminist to justify the harm and abuse of another minority group.
Living in an internationalised modern community,
Politics needs to remember that injustices rationalised in Australia can often be used in the rationalisation of abuse against Christian and feminist groups in foreign countries.
#humanrights #undhr #lbgti #auspol #health #education