AGA is actively engaged to protect, promote and advocate for the rights and legal recognition of intersex, trans and gender diverse people. AGA’s work helps reform laws at a territory and nationwide level, and contributes to policy development. We also actively lobby decision makers and forms strategic partnerships through which to enhance our advocacy platform.
If you have any questions about AGA’s policy and advocacy work, please contact AGA’s Executive Director Vik Fraser: vik.fraser@genderrights.org.au.
AGA has made submissions to a number of Commonwealth and ACT-based consultation processes and inquiries.
Submission to the Inquiry into Community Corrections 2021
Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department: Religious Discrimination Bill 2019
Submission to the Expert Panel on Religious Freedom – AIDS Action Council and AGA
2019 Submission to Equality Australia – LGBTIQ+ Legal Audit
LGBTIQ Strategy Submission 2019
2018 AHRC Inquiry – People Born with Variations in Sex Characteristics and Medical Interventions
2018: Women’s March Speech – Cody Smith: Intersex & Intersectionality
2016 8th-HACS-08-Inquiry-Into-Youth-Suicide-And-Self-Harm
media statement – Re Kelvin(2) (1)
SSUB 2012 ACT Budget Submission
SUB 2005 ACT Gender Identity Submission
SUB 2010 AHRC Discrimination Consultation
SUB 2011 ACT Budget Submission
SUB 2011 ACT LRAC Beyond the Binary
SUB 2012 Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill
SUB 2013 forced sterilisation of intersex people
Best practice guidelines for medical specialists considering prescribing hormone therapy can be found in the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents. Melbourne: The Royal Children’s Hospital; 2017.