Latest / PRIDE Daily / Australia’s census covers sexuality and gender for the first time
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- 0:34Speaker 3: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm keV McGrath coming up Chapel
- 0:40Speaker 3: rowan get super graphic first. Though Australians are completing the
- 0:45Speaker 3: country's five yearly census today, which covers sexuality and gender
- 0:50Speaker 3: for the first time. Over sixteen's can now say how
- 0:54Speaker 3: they identify. Don't have to answer if they don't want
- 0:57Speaker 3: to or if they're unsure. There's now also an option
- 1:00Speaker 3: to state they're sex recorded at birth. Anna Brown, CEO
- 1:04Speaker 3: of Equality Australia and tells ten News these questions should
- 1:08Speaker 3: lead to better support for LGBTQ plus people.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Counting our communities, collecting that demographic data and making sure
- 1:15Speaker 2: that government programs and services are tailored to the needs
- 1:18Speaker 2: of the community so we know how many LGBT people
- 1:21Speaker 2: are out there, how many leave in certain areas, and
- 1:24Speaker 2: we can make sure, whether it's age care, housing or
- 1:27Speaker 2: other government services, that the programs and funding are getting
- 1:30Speaker 2: to where they're needed.
- 1:31Speaker 3: The census doesn't ask about intersex people, and advocates want
- 1:35Speaker 3: that addressed in the future. Most of the information recorded
- 1:38Speaker 3: will be released next June. Pride Daily Dix, Bolivia's officially
- 1:44Speaker 3: registered its first same sex marriage. Fabiana Bansa and Scarlett
- 1:49Speaker 3: Rocher have tied the knot after an almost four year
- 1:52Speaker 3: legal fight. Because as things stand, the country only has
- 1:55Speaker 3: civil unions. Think of it in terms of milk. We're
- 1:58Speaker 3: talking semi skinned currently, not full fat. The marriage doesn't
- 2:02Speaker 3: actually change the law, but it's hope this will give
- 2:04Speaker 3: things a shove in the right direction. Two men had
- 2:07Speaker 3: the first civil union there in twenty twenty. Pride Daily
- 2:12Speaker 3: in Chapel Rowan's launching a big queer fundraiser, the Supergraphic Spectacular.
- 2:17Speaker 3: The lesbian singer will be performing at the event, which
- 2:20Speaker 3: is over two days in Los Angeles this October. Plus
- 2:24Speaker 3: there's going to be Drag ACTX and comedy. Proceeds go
- 2:27Speaker 3: to a Midwest Princess project helping transgender young people and
- 2:31Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus communities, which has raised more than eight hundred
- 2:35Speaker 3: thousand US dollars so far. Now time to tell you
- 2:39Speaker 3: that World pridees wrapped up in Amsterdam with tens of
- 2:43Speaker 3: thousands of people turning out to march. The next one's
- 2:46Speaker 3: held in Cape Town in twenty twenty eight. Leave us
- 2:50Speaker 3: a review please and be encouraging that you lot. I'll
- 2:56Speaker 3: see you tomorrow.
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