Public Health Association of Australia Media Release
Australia’s peak body for public health, Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), applauds the Government’s announcement of a 10-year Action Plan to improve the health and wellbeing of the LGBTIQA+ community.
The National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People, launched today, outlines ways to improve the care LGBTIQA+ people receive and deliver better mental and physical health outcomes across the community.
Key areas of focus include strengthening preventive health and building health literacy, enhancing accessibility, availability and safety of health care services, and ensuring workforce capability and capacity across both mainstream and LGBTIQA+ led services.
The Government will also invest $15.5 million into system-wide improvements that ensure LGBTIQA+ people can access safe, appropriate and stigma-free health and wellbeing care.
“We know that discrimination, stigma, and harassment, both within and outside the health care system, lead to poorer health outcomes for LGBTIQA+ people compared to the wider community,” said PHAA CEO, Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin.
“The Action Plan is a welcome step by the Government to address these disparities and make safe, inclusive and high-quality health care available to all LGBTIQA+ people.
“We also wish to express our appreciation to everyone who has helped develop this plan, from members of the LGBTIQA+ and health communities across the continent, through to the public servants and minister who will help enact it.”
About the Public Health Association of Australia
We’re Australia’s peak body for public health and advocate for the health and wellbeing of everyone. We strive to help prevent, rather than cure, illness and disease. Our campaigns and activities span numerous public health issues from environmental health, immunisation and pandemic control, through to tobacco, gambling, physical activity, junk food marketing, preventive mental health, health education and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
Our 2,000+ individual members represent over 40 professional groups interested in the promotion of public health. We also have branches in every State and Territory.
Learn more at phaa.net.au
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It seems every passing year they add more letters to their acronym: LGBTIQA+. I have no idea what half these letters are supposed to stand for. Does this mean they make up another new ‘gender’ every so often to try and make it look like they are now a majority? Personally I prefer a good old fashioned BLT!
Soon we will need to include ‘H’ for Heterosexual. Was going to suggest ‘N’ for Normal, but I don’t think that would cut it.
Coz what the f is NORMAL?
As Chapelle clear calls them, alphabet people.
You want to alienate the majority, call your self LGBTIQA+. I have sympathy and patience, but dont foist yourself on me.
The alphabet is not what defines you. The alphabet only tells me your sexual orientation, and to be truthful….who gives a fuck what that is..
John C
I hesitate to ask, but BLT. That’s Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato, right ?
Andy,
Telling you who I am, when we interact for the first time, is not foisting myself on you. It is, at most, reminding you that a fair proportion of people do not fit what is assumed to be the norm (cisgender, heterosexual). Maybe if so many people didn’t assume that everyone is (or at least should be) cisgender and heterosexual, it wouldn’t be necessary.
John:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (mostly non-binary or genderfluid and few other trace elements), Intersex, Asexual. The + is for everyone else who doesn’t fit cishet parameters.
Bert:
It’s like that old (ever since we’ve had an International Women’s Day) joke: “When is International Men’s Day?” “All of them”.
What people fail to see, or understand, is that we do not other ourselves; we are othered by society, including in its ongoing assumption that cishet is “normal” and “right”. So, yes, sometimes we get out and loud and proud about it, simply because you keep trying to suppress us and we have to keep fighting for our right to be who we are.
Leefe, thats as dumb as ne saying i am hetero when we meet. Who gves a fig leaf ? Thats foistering my sexual orientation. You want to be accepted as you are, dont mention your sexual orientation. Thats just being provocative.
Andy, it’s about more than orientation. Gender identity has nothing to do with sexual orientation, and if people are to be addressed the way they prefer, that means that often they have to “out” their gender status. And then, even if all we’ve done is add some pronouns to an email or online bio, suddenly we’re flaunting it and shoving it down people’s throats.
And most people don’t actually mention any of this until they need to. But, again, any mention of LGBTQIA= people and it’s “flaunting it and shoving it down our throats”. What do you want – for everyone who doesn’t conform to crawl back into their closets and deny their very natures?
Oh, and by the way, a lot of people – and I am talking about blokes here – do make their orientation painfully obvious, by their constant perving, hitting one and commentary to and about every apparently female human they see and/or meet. I hope you’re as insistent that all those blokes “keep it to themselves” and stop “being provocative”.