Rainbow Futures WA

Today, Rainbow Futures WA launched the ‘Prioritise LGBTIQA+ Law Reform Now’ campaign.

The campaign calls on people in Western Australia to contact their local Member of Parliament to express the importance of LGBTIQA+ law reform in WA during this term, ahead of the 2025 election.

In WA, religious schools still hold a licence to discriminate against LGBTQA+ staff and students, conversion practices remain legal, the process for trans and gender diverse people to legally update their gender remains the worst in the country, surrogacy laws make altruistic surrogacy unavailable to people who are not women or heterosexual couples and intersex babies and children continue to be subjected to deferrable medical interventions without their personal informed consent.

This blatant discrimination has very real consequences for the LGBTIQA+ community, which can be seen in poorer health outcomes, discrimination in the workplace, stigma in the wider community, and has contributed to higher rates of suicide

The campaign highlights the need for the WA Government to deliver on their commitments for an updated Equal Opportunity Act that provides protections for LGBTIQA+ people
, modernisation of the legal gender recognition process for trans and gender diverse people,
conversion practices, seeking to change sexual orientation or gender identity, to be banned
, and surrogacy laws to make altruistic surrogacy available to all people, not just women or heterosexual couples.

It also highlights the government’s dismissive response on the need for reform on deferrable medical interventions that modify the bodies of babies and children with intersex variations in WA.

Help us push for action on LGBTIQA+ law reform in WA by contacting your local MP through the campaign here.

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