March 10th 2025
Just.Equal Australia has released its wishlist for the 2025 federal election.
We have written to the major parties and independents seeking commitments to a range of reforms.
Among Just.Equal’s election priorities are:
- A prohibition on discrimination against LGBTIQA+ people in faith-based schools and services
- A prohibition on anti-LGBTIQA+ vilification
- An LGBTIQA+ human rights commissioner and an Equality Minister
- No roll back of existing legislative rights and protections, regulations or programs
- No roll back of gender affirming care for young trans and gender diverse people
- A public campaign to challenge rising discrimination and hate against LGBTIQA+ people
- Counting all trans and intersex people in the Census
- Support for legislation to protect the human rights of children with innate variations of sex characteristics in medical settings
- Support for legislation prohibiting all conversion practices
- Medicare rebates for gender affirmation treatments
- Medicare rebates for commissioning parents in surrogacy arrangements
- The removal of the current ban on blood donation by sexually-active gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men
- The establishment of LGBTIQA+ reference groups in health, education and across the whole-of-government with a transparent, merit-based nomination and selection process
- A national Human Rights Act
See our media release here: