Posts tagged non-binary

The US survey reveals 58 per cent have experienced abuse by police.

“Are you more comfortable in your body now?”

“Hopefully [in the future], with more acceptance, transgender people will go on to have happy and fulfilling lives, and less will fall to the life-shortening events that we used to suffer in the bad old days.”

The biennial SWASH survey found 31 per cent of women and non-binary people felt life was not worth living in the past 12 months, with 14 per cent of respondents reporting self-harm.

“I think my generation is feeling somewhat safer to be out, depending on so many other factors of course. It’s crucial that there is more trans representation in the media, and in entertainment.”

“Remember how it felt when the straight boys in school would play act being a gay man – that is how I know a lot of women feel experiencing drag.”

“Out bush the Army has always been gender neutral.”

“You don’t have to be an activist to speak out about any of this stuff, you just have to give a shit.”

42 percent of non-binary young people had also attempted suicide, as well as 30 percent of young trans women, according to the US study.

The Australian Christian Lobby’s state branch decried the proposal, saying taxpayers should not fund surgeries that advocates say are “life-changing” and sometimes “life-saving”.