GayNZ.com – By GayNZ.com News Staff
LGBT advocacy network Rainbow Wellington is demanding action by MPs to follow up on several recommendations set out in the Human Rights Commission’s recently released report on transgender discrimination in New Zealand.
Rainbow Wellington chair Tony Simpson says “the trouble with reports of this sort is that they set out with the best of intentions, they involve a great deal of work and commitment, and when they make sensible and practical recommendations – as this does – they raise expectations that action will follow.
“Unfortunately there is likely to be a long silence with someone eventually asking: ‘I wonder what happened to…’ We don’t intend to let the grass grow on this one.”