Analysis: The lesson from overseas is that the battle for trans rights isn’t going | KnottMatthew
by opponents, triggered a costly nationwide backlash that McCrory didn’t foresee.
The government had proposed extending those protections only to gay students, meaning school principals would still be able to expel transgender students based on their identity. “I can’t say that trans people are adequately supported by more gay-focussed organisations 100 per cent of the time,” Jeremy Wiggins, executive officer of transgender rights group Transcend Australia, said.But Australia’s leading LGBTQI organisations stood united against the religious discrimination bills, insisting they would not let transgender students be sacrificed to achieve some progress for gay students.
“Both LGB and straight allies learnt the lesson after marriage equality: we will not abandon our trans siblings and let them be thrown under the bus.”The terrain has recently shifted from school bathrooms to sporting fields as a slew of Republican states moved to restrict female transgender children from playing in girls’ sports.
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