Yesterday, Labour released its “Rainbow manifesto”.
Labour would work to improve Rainbow health and ensure the health care system meets the needs of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people.
Specific promises include:
- Continuing the rollout of the HIV Action Plan to ensure PrEP access and quicker responses to emerging threats like Mpox
- Making access to health care services easier for transgender people by funding eight primary health care providers around NZ to provide gender-affirming care
- Deploying a nationwide informed consent model for gender-affirming health care
- Reviewing the cost of gender-affirming surgeries and treatment
- Implementing a child rights-based health care protocol for intersex children
- Convening a blood donation roundtable
[…] Schools would be encouraged to adopt the Ministry of Education’s sexuality education guidelines while teachers would be given professional development on understanding sexual orientation, gender diversity and variations of sex characteristics. […]
Hipkins said Labour would set up a separate part of our yearly refugee quota for Rainbow individuals. […]
Hipkins added Labour would provide regular and long-term funding for NGOs as they provide health and wellbeing support, host pride events, and build communities. […]
“Labour has relentlessly advocated for Rainbow communities in Government over the last six years,” Hipkins said.
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Read more here. Discuss it on the BFD.