Election 2023 - LGBTQ+ Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
Green Party
Spokesperson:
Jan Logie
Link to
policy here
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Jan Logie
- Develop a national Rainbow suicide prevention strategy.
- Amend the Human Rights Act to clarify that all forms of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics are prohibited grounds of discrimination, and develop training on these responsibilities.
- Prohibit all non-consensual and medically unnecessary surgeries or medical interventions on intersex people, and make reparations to survivors of these practices.
- Resource and promote clear pathways for timely, non-discriminatory access to all forms of gender-affirming healthcare based on informed consent and self-determination.
- Reform laws and policies affecting Rainbow asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, to protect their rights.
- Establish a Ministry for Rainbow Communities.
- Resource Rainbow communities to be involved in co-designing and implementing policies, strategies and programmes that affect them.
- Read more here
Labour
Spokesperson:
Chris Hipkins
Link to
policy here
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Chris Hipkins
- Continue the rollout of the HIV Action Plan which ensures communities at greater risk can access PrEP, which strives to eliminate local transmission of HIV and ensure people with HIV have healthy lives free from stigma and discrimination, and quicker responses to emerging threats like Mpox.
- Continue the mahi we have underway to improve Rainbow health including making access to health care services easier for transgender people by funding for eight primary health care providers around the country to provide gender affirming care.
- Acknowledge the emerging evidence of discrimination and convene a Blood Donation roundtable, bringing together advocates, experts and specialist organisations to explore the latest evidence regarding the Donor Behavioural Criteria; particularly the three month stand down period that applies for sex workers and men who have sex with men.
- Ensure Rainbow voices are represented in healthcare decisions and policy direction by developing and deploying a nationwide informed consent model for gender affirming healthcare and will fund people’s treatment within this model as appropriate to standards of care. We will review the cost of gender-affirming surgeries and treatment with a view to lowering the cost and ensuring more equitable access.
- Labour will implement a child rights- based health care protocol for intersex children, so that no one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood, and binary gender assignment is not automatically presumed to be the best- case outcome.
- Read more here
National
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
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Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.