When we work together, we have the power to change laws and change lives. The resounding 2017 YES result shows that Australians know that equality makes us stronger. And we are not done yet.

Faith-based schools are allowed to legally expel trans and gay students, as well as fire teachers because of their sexuality or gender identity. People born with intersex (a combination of male and female) biological characteristics are considered broken and subjected to ‘normalising’ treatments and surgeries as infants and children before they can ever give consent. So-called ‘conversion therapy’ is still happening inside certain religious communities that see LGBTQ people as sick and broken, instead of human and whole.

We stand together and we stand proud because no one deserves to be treated as less-than for simply being who they are. Not the rainbow family. Not the trans teenager. Not the teacher or student just trying to go to school. There are voices we still need to amplify, stories we still need to tell and wrongs we still need to right.