With Pride month coming to an end, the Young Greens want to wish everyone a happy Pride. We continue to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community and are committed to campaigning for the rights of all LGBTQ+ young people.
The Green Party strives for a fairer society where the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ members are recognised, not dismissed or used as a political football. Discrimination is still prevalent in the daily lives of many young people, such as the limited access to safe housing, education, employment, and healthcare. Furthermore, the anti trans rhetoric visible in political and media discourse is both harmful and exclusionary and seeks to erase the existence of trans and non-binary people.
Pride, in its truest form, is the celebration and liberation of the LGBTIQA+ community. This demands real intersectional action, not empty words disguised as corporate pinkwashing.
Green Party policy signifies this real action, including:
- Comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education in schools.
- Updating the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans and non-binary people to get legal recognition through self determination.
- Formally recognising non-binary and intersex people on legal documents.
- Banning conversion therapy.
Mor Stinchcombe, Young Greens LGBTQIA+ Officer, commented:
“This election, and the toxic discourse from the two big parties, have put a damper on Pride month, but still we march.”
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