We welcome you.
If you are a member of the LGBTIQ+ community, you are welcome at Uniting.
We are working for an inclusive community .
LGBTIQ+ inclusion.
We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at all of our services.
- We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.
- We are members of the Pride in Diversity and Pride in Health + Wellbeing.
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We measure our inclusive practice through the Health + Wellbeing Equality Index each year.
LGBTIQ+ advocacy
We advocate on issues impacting LGBTIQ+ people including:
- Submission to development of the Victorian Government LGBTIQ+ Strategy
- Statement on the Victorian Change & Suppression (Conversion) Practices Bill 2020.
Community consultation
- Uniting’s Rainbow Working Group, made up of LGBTIQ+ community members and allies from our workforce
- LGBTIQ+ Consumer Consultants, made up of service users who identify as members of LGBTIQ+ communities
- Industry networks including Rainbow Health Victoria, Rainbow Network, Rainbow Tick Community of Practice, HEY Partners, Transgender Victoria, Pride in Diversity and Pride in Health+Wellbeing.
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International Transgender Day of Visibility.
Advocacy in action
Uniting stands with our partnering organisations at the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare to recognise and celebrate trans and gender diverse children and young people and support the right for gender identity to be recognised, respected, and celebrated.
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Midsumma 2020.
LGBTIQ+ Inclusion
For the first time in our short history as a state-wide organisation, Uniting Vic.Tas was an official participant in the 2020 Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne in February.
As a Uniting employee and member of the LGBTIQ+ community, I was made to feel welcome.
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