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Feature: Gender and The Law

Trans Melbourne Gender Project (TMGP) is a coalition of people of all genders engaged in activism and support around gender. Their mission is to create a society where people are able to freely embody the gender they feel they are, whether that be transgendered, transsexual, intersex, gender-queer, MTF, FTM, queer, or none of the above.

In July 2008 Done By Law took a look at how the law sees gender. Does the Equal Opportunity Act translate into meaningful freedom for people in terms of gender? What do people mean when they say “human rights” and how useful is a rights based approach in terms of gender identity and gender variance? Is using the law the best way to guarantee gender freedom?

Marian Prickett from Done By Law catches up with Aren Aizura from the TMGP collective ….