A good sign, perhaps?
Jan 21st, 2008 by Rebecca
I’ve just heard a bit of surprising news: Attorney-General Corbell has said he’s going to address the Civic Square rally in support of the ACT Civil Partnerships Bill on February 2. I was fully expecting that we’d get a “we’d like to, but no” from anyone involved with the Labor Party.
I’ve been quite pessimistic about the bill’s chances so far, but it would seem to me to be rather odd if Corbell was going to front a rally in support of the bill the week before the sitting of parliament if he was indeed planning to back down to federal pressure. Perhaps Chief Minister Stanhope and Corbell are planning to hold the line after all?
Could be a sign of the impending election, the ACT is heading to the polls come November, and the ACT government might place it’s own survival above not embarrassing it’s bruthas up on the hill.
I certainly hope so…
Are you back in Canberra yet? I’m bored - come have a beer, damnit.
Make it a cuppa tea, and you’re on.
There’s a number of us here in Canberra, I think about a hundred (!) but we have little contact with one another. Many are stealth, of course.
I’m off to Canada in a week, to give moral support to a friend who’s seeing Brassard. Like me, she’s one of the few whose transition was unplanned, and the result of natural causes. We face specific difficulties peculiar to our situation, medical, social and legal, so not being alone is important. There goes my FFS/BA fund…
When I consider just how difficult it was for me to get information, I wonder how much harder it must be for a 15 yr old transman, for example. In addition to a national political advocacy group, one of the things I think we need is a TS/IS rather than TG support group for the ACT, concentrating solely on the medical aspects rather than broader social support for the Transgendered.
Yeah, I’ve wondered a group like that whether that might be a useful thing myself. I’ve joined the one group there is, but since they’re generally older TG folk, I don’t necessarily have a whole lot in common with them, and it’d be nice to know if there’s any other TS people around. So far, all I know of is you and one other - surely there has to be more than this.
Further to that, though, Zoe - I wish we had some sort of action group here in the ACT. Amongst other things, there’s a hole in the trans coverage in the Discrimination Act that even an incompetent lawyer could drive a truck through, and there isn’t any intersex coverage in there either.