Election 2020 - Party Policies - Communities - LGBTQ+ Issues
25th Jul 20, 5:49am
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LGBTQ+ Issues
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- Amend discriminatory laws and policies to ensure the government complies fully with the Human Rights Act 1993.
- Support the extension of all legal partnership arrangements and rights to same-sex couples.
- Establish equal criteria for both rainbow and heterosexual couples in their assessment for suitability and eligibility for parenting.
- Support the creation of safe and supportive educational environments, such as through the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in teacher training and development, the teaching of human rights in schools, and the creation of partnerships with schools and rainbow youth organisations to reduce the unacceptably high level of suicide and drug abuse.
- Clarify gender identity and expression and sex characteristics as prohibited grounds of discrimination.
- Read more here and here.
- Make practising, performing or enabling conversion therapy a crime to prevent this outdated and harmful practice from occurring in New Zealand.
- Ensuring our healthcare system is responsive to the needs of trans, intersex and gender diverse people, and developing a rights based protocol to prevent unnecessary medical interventions on intersex children.
- Target $4 million of mental health funding for the Rainbow community, continue implementing the Suicide Prevention Strategy and continue our work to address homelessness including Rainbow homelessness.
- Ensure schools apply guidance to create safe and inclusive school environments for all students, work with schools on providing gender neutral bathrooms and update New Zealand’s workplace gender and sexual diversity standards.
- Review of adoption and surrogacy policies and laws and a review of the Human Rights Act 1993 to ensure discrimination on the grounds of gender identity is explicitly prohibited.
- Read more here.
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