queer and enby (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ advocate and Masters of Public Health student @unimelbMSPGH All views my own unless otherwise stated
Melbourne, Australia
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My #MedBikini because there's nothing unprofessional about a backyard swim, but also my Mardi Gras look because there's nothing unprofessional about queerness. Let's fight back against 'professional standards' as a tool for dismissal of those already disempowered within medicine
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Building a statue of a protester with chains and then making protesting with chains illegal 18 months later is some Utopia level plot line
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“people who are terminally ill shouldn’t have to suffer” and “under capitalism and austerity with next to no social supports, crumbling healthcare and constant vitriol about “people who don’t contribute” euthanasia can/will be used as a culling tool” are both true at once
On the 16th of May I came home to find my previously healthy partner of 10 years on the floor of his bedroom, having suffered a catastrophic stroke. Several ambulances attended and treated him with respect and dignity as they assessed him and carried him downstairs, despite him
Ambulance Victoria has recorded an operating loss of $26m for 2023/24 - a loss of $500,000 every week for the year. #springst
The ambos did an incredible job keeping me calm and updated on what was happening. Whilst my partner ultimately died I'm forever grateful for the ambos taking such good care of both of us, and it brings me a lot of comfort knowing that absolutely everything was done to maximise
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Abortion is health care. It's also legal in Australia. So why the fuck is a public hospital refusing to provide health care for women?
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The freedom to protest is fundamental to democracy. Protesters have the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights, and are protected by the implied freedom of political communication under our Constitution. 🧵1/10
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THIS is what it looks like when queer event organisers listen to the queer people who attend them!
Take note @midsumma, @sydneymardigras & Wagga Wagga Mardi Gras 👀
abc.net.au/news/2024-09-12/s…
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The violence being perpetrated by Victoria Police against Victorians today is atrocious.
It's clear the police aren't about protecting the community, they're about protecting government profits and corporate interests, in this case the profits of war, destruction and death.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Puberty blockers ARE a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, Australian review finds abc.net.au/news/2024-09-06/g…
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Intersex people are arguably the most marginalised members of the LGBTQIA+ community, & their exclusion from census data is extremely harmful
Intersex infants are still being given cosmetic surgery at birth, as well as involuntary or coerced sterilisation
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It would be nice if a single news outlet would clearly state that Labor is still not including a question that will count trans people in the census, as they promised prior to the election and as they committed to in their national platform.
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This is a weak backdown from Allan, but no surprise from Labor.
Across the country we're seeing Labor governments cave to media and Coalition fearmongering, and go against what the evidence says will make communities safer & help disadvantaged kids. 🧵
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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"But most children who take puberty blockers will go on to transition!" Good! That means the diagnostic criteria is accurate! This is only a bad thing if you believe being transgender is a bad thing, in which case your opinion belongs nowhere near trans healthcare.
