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Trans interests excluded from Summit
Katrina Fox & Rachel Cook

GLBT advocates have slammed the apparent non-inclusion of trans representatives at the 2020 Summit.

The summit included a number of people championing the cause of gay and lesbian people in Australia, but trans interests appear to have been sidelined, activists claimed.

“It’s of … concern that no transgender person is involved, given the severe disadvantage that they face in Australia,” Tasmanian Gay & Lesbian Rights Group spokersperson Rodney Croome told Queensland Pride.

“The conference that is supposed to be about social inclusion is already off to a bad start when there is a significant and deeply sidelined minority that is excluded.”

Independent trans activist from Brisbane Linda Petrie told Queensland Pride she had nominated herself to take part in the summit but was rejected.

“The average attempted suicide rate of transgender citizens is 40 per cent, largely because of the stressors of socially systemic ignorance, prejudice, harassment and ostracisation we and transgender children endure in Australian society,” she said.

“How can any summit speak with confidence and ethicality to the ‘health’ issues of our country while it leaves these transgender men and women, boys and girls behind, then talk about ‘social inclusion’ to refer to another of the Summit’s focuses?”

Representatives from the NSW Gender Centre and lobby group Sex And Gender Education (SAGE) said they had not nominated themselves as they were unaware of this option being available to them.
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