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‘Census 2021 Feels Like An Insulting Erasure Of Australia’s LGBTQI+ Communities’
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starobserver.com.auBy Anna Brown, CEO, Equality Australia & Nicky Bath, CEO, LGBTIQ+ Health Australia Tonight is census night, but once again LGBTIQ+ people won’t be properly counted.
The national survey will ask for a whole heap of our personal information – how much we earn, our religious beliefs, and our history of chronic disease.
But it won’t ask questions about sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics. Without questions that accurately capture us, the once-in-five-year snapshot of the population won’t capture the full diversity of the Australian community.
It’s a missed opportunity to inform crucial decisions about what services are provided, and where. The real-world reality is that intersex people, and people of diverse genders and.
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