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Only 7 formerly government-owned properties. It sounds more like temporary/halfway accomodation, like there is for female domestic violence victims (not for male victims though, lol), than a solution to systemic trans discrimination and housing unaffordability.
I mean, that kinda seems like why I'd want there to be housing specifically for trans women. Building housing specifically for trans folks seems like the wrong way to solve housing discrimination or housing unaffordability. I think those problems would probably be more effectively soved through other means
But building essentially shelter housing for trans folks without a safe place to go seems like a great way to create a space for them that is safe and trans inclusive should they find themselves in crisis, and unwelcome or uncomfortable using other faculties that are disproportionately serving cis women who may or may not be welcoming or understanding.
Now they just also have to implement policies that address housing unaffordability, and housing discrimination. If its like the situation in the US, kinda feels like thats never gonna happen 🙃
Absolutely! The problem is that the title is clickbait and misleading, as it implies a targeted and discriminatory solution to general housing affordability for trans women, which the program is not, and implying such is bad journalism — ragebait for bigots and disenfranchised Australians suffering from decades of conservative/neoliberal social and economic mismanagement.
The reality is that this program is a run of the mill, bare-minimum, bandaid measure (i.e. does nothing to fix systemic housing affordability). The newsworthy part is that this one specifically caters to the needs of the trans women population (what about trans men!?!) already suffering housing insecurity and insufficient support under the existing bandaids — which is a good thing — though a competent government would implement general housing reforms that address the systemic failures, which would help everyone suffering housing insecurity, including LGBTQ+ and all most at-risk groups (and is what should be demanded by voters, rather than more of the same bandaid non-solutions).
Gooootcha, I follow what the point you're making now!
also, I appreciate you filling me in cause I wouldn't have read the article and he context you provided is much more useful than the headline
Hope you have a good one :)
It would literally be the only affordable housing in the country.
Unrelated question, how hard is it to de-transition?
Why?
when a carboard box 3 hours from the city costs a million dollars I'd wager there are a lot of people who aren't above getting top surgery just to afford a roof over their head.
This program is aimed at individuals with very low to moderate incomes, making it unlikely for someone who can afford extensive gender-affirming surgeries, such as top surgery, to qualify. Moreover, Australian healthcare policies do not provide free gender-affirming surgeries, reinforcing that those eligible for this housing support are genuinely in need and cannot manipulate the system for free housing.