Govt's "transphobic attitudes" condemned


Posted in: New Zealand Daily News, By GayNZ.com Daily News staff - 1st March 2012

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Cherise Witehira


A national transgender advocacy agency has slammed the "pure ignorance and transphobic attitudes" of the Government and called for change in the prison system.

Agender NZ National President Cherise Witehira has written to Minister of Corrections Anne Tolley and her Associate Minister with specific recommendations for altering Corrections Department policy, to improve the treatment of transgender prisoners.

It comes after Tolley was yesterday challenged in Parliament by lesbian MPs Jan Logie and Maryan Street over the Corrections policy to house trans inmates based on their sex at birth, unless they have had full gender reassignment surgery.