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Call for ‘gender-affirming’ health care ■ Aiv Puglielli, North-Eastern Metropolitan) MLC, has called for a firm commitment to invest in and expand comprehensive gender-affirming health care in our state. “Trans Day of Visibility was celebrated on March 31. I attended the rally at the State Library and heard the calls of the community, the community instead choosing to refer to this day as the ‘Trans Day of Action’.
“Members of the trans and gender-diverse community are having difficult conversations at the moment about what it means to be visible. “Visibility should be a sign of progress, but increasingly for many trans and genderdiverse people visibility is a gateway to violence. Visibility is not enough. Visibility does not put food on your table.”
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■ A major portion of plans for the suburban Rail Loop had been redacted, North Eastern Metropolitan MLC Richard Welch has told State Parliament. “My constituency matter is for the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop,” Mr Welch told the Legislative Council. “Recently the Glen Waverley SRL precinct plan was released. It was released so that the public can comment on it, so they can have a say in what happens in their community. “However, at least a third of the entire precinct plan has been redacted and will be subject to a separate planning scheme, but no definition of that planning scheme resides within the SRL precinct. “So this is I think yet another deliberate exercise by the Suburban Rail Loop Authority to hide information from the community so they cannot provide wholesome feedback on the plan that is affecting their community. “There is no explanation how that feedback can be considered wholesome if you actually do not know what is happening in a third of the precinct. “So, Minister, I ask you: will you please disclose the full strategy plan for the precinct and explain what these redacted areas mean and under what planning scheme they will operate?” Mr Welch said.
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