Tasmanians will head to the polls for the state’s Parliament on May 1. The local LGBTQI+ community can now vote with the knowledge that all the three the major political parties – Labor, Liberals and Greens – contesting the Tasmania elections have publicly committed to supporting pro-LGBTQI+ policies and law reforms.
This was revealed by LGBTQI+ advocacy group Equality Tasmania following a pre-election survey that it conducted to gauge the response of the political parties to issues affecting the community. “We are pleased with the responses to key law reform issues such as a ban on conversion practices, a ban on unnecessary medical interventions on intersex children, and reform of the Coroner’s Act to ensure same-sex partners are.
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