AUSTRALIA | 20130112225943| ILGA-ASIA
An online campaign launched by a Sydney transgender activist is seeking to fund and film a documentary of the gender transition process. Transman and actor Andrew Guy released a trailer for the self-made documentary It’s Not About The Sex on crowdfunding site Pozible in November, detailing the surgeries, hormone therapy and challenges of undergoing the gender reassignment process.

| 20121221100514| ILGA-ASIA
If your car looked sparklingly clean on December 8, you may have had it washed by Many Genders One Voice, a Healthy Communities Trans* Health Action Group, which held a fundraising cash wash outside Number 29 Cruise Club in Fortitude Valley. One Voicers washed over 40 cars and raised $500; that same night TBar – a Trans* inclusive dance party – kindly donated $200 to the action group.

AUSTRALIA | 20121207045214| ILGA-ASIA
Respectfully, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) National Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (NCLGBTI) holds a position that Gender Identity Disorder, Gender Incongruence, Gender Dysphoria, Transvestic Fetishism and, Transvestic Disorder should not be considered as mental health diagnosis and therefore should be eliminated from the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM). 

AUSTRALIA | 20121130234007| ILGA-ASIA
Top transgender and intersex advocates refreshed their lobbying efforts in Canberra this week with a new report outlining the remaining priorities for some of Australia’s most vulnerable minorities.

NEW ZEALAND | 20121125230041| ILGA-ASIA
Grant made history as the first trans person in New Zealand, and perhaps the commonwealth, to sit on this type of juridical body a term which was initially for five years and extended twice. She also had the honour of becoming the first trans person in the world to receive an order of merit when in 1997 she was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

NEW ZEALAND | 20121125031638| ILGA-ASIA
Transgender advocacy group Agender has written an open letter to the family, friends and colleagues of killed chopper pilot Julianne Kramer, urging them to respect her gender identity.

AUSTRALIA | 20121125031241| ILGA-ASIA
Tasmanian gay rights advocates are unhappy with a proposal to allow religious schools to discriminate against students on the grounds of religion but have welcomed safeguards to ensure discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation will continue to be unlawful. For several years the Catholic Church has sought an exemption to allow it to turn away non-Catholic students from schools that are over-subscribed.

AUSTRALIA | 20121118141624| ILGA-ASIA
The 52-year-old was killed when the Robinson R22 helicopter she was flying from Wanaka to Queenstown, crashed in Cardrona Valley on Thursday night.