We cannot assume that our rights are legally enshrined, and can be teased out of existing legislation and rulings by careful and critical interpretation.
Simply put, they are not, and there is no incentive for those with the power to do so so to look favourably on our position.
Simply put, they are not, and there is no incentive for those with the power to do so so to look favourably on our position.
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We need to demand that organisational stigma and professional gatekeeping end.
We need to demand that rulings granting an excuse to exclude us from public life be superseded with new legislation to protect our rights.
They want to tire us out, make us feel afraid, and alone, and as though the whole world is against us.
As though there's nothing we can do.
But if we were happy playing along any longer then we wouldn't be here.
We demand better.
The debate in Parliament about the Self-ID e-petition shows that there are politicians who do understand our concerns and are aware of the flaws endemic in Parliament itself holding progress back.