Hey Australian friends, please sign this petition, I'd hate to loose my legal identity because of some bigots.

https://track.equalityaustralia.org.au/-/m/view-online?k=EWVxdWFsaXR5YXVzdHJhbGlhAGbWph4bYxzNzc0AEGoVLDSihm1sN3t6NxGtDGbfxrnhOuCfk1bWUA&rg=au

Edit: if you want the exact link it is: https://equalityaustralia.org.au/hands-off-our-protections/

It is a petition by Equality Australia, writing or calling your MPs directly is also totally fine and encouraged!

#LGBTQ #transRightsAreHumanRights #australia

Ortto App

@thisismissem @aussocialadmin There is no petition at the link provided. There is a letter asking people to sign a petition. It is full of links to the same site, all of which have extremely long, opaque URI parameters. As does the link in your toot.

Where is the actual petition and how does one sign it?

Hands off our protections

Our protections matter Our communities are facing some of the most serious attacks on our rights and protections in many years.  Right now, multiple Bills are being pushed that would strip protections from trans people and take a wrecking ball to Australia’s anti-discrimination laws more broadly.  No one should be singled out for exclusion because of [...]Read More...

Equality Australia

@futzle @thisismissem @aussocialadmin The first link in the page ("defanged") is to

track.equalityaustralia.org.au/r?t=abtnnjq6dnrrztonzuaba2qvfq2kfbtnnq3xw6qraidt34otafido36saoefvlk4isofjcqu5l2ppzsqjmqlymencnqka2zino4fbnldgtpwwothukkmrnqmwrkvryaofrdacz32ukagtxzb4bssv5vcocgxplhvr33bezbr

You can see why it might cause hesitation...

Also, the petition itself has this below the input fields: "By supporting this campaign you give permission for Equality Australia to contact you." That should be a checkbox, defaulting to unchecked.

So the petition gets one less signature while I go write my own letter.

@kauer mate you could just support this person being recognised as a person and unsubscribe for anything else that gets sent. yeah the lack of an opt in is not great, but it's a fuck tonne better than (legally) not existing @futzle @thisismissem @aussocialadmin
@warkolm @futzle @thisismissem @aussocialadmin I wrote a letter instead. Ink on paper, even.
@kauer Cheers, sincere thanks for supporting the cause.