15/11/2025
Trans Awareness Week 🌈
This week is about visibility, understanding and standing alongside our trans and gender diverse communities. It’s a time to listen, learn, and recognise the barriers many still face — especially when it comes to healthcare, aged care, grief, and end-of-life decision-making.
In my recent conversation with Bronte Price — Australia’s leading LGBTQIA+ celebrant — we spoke about how trans and q***r people often have to advocate harder to ensure their identities, relationships and wishes are respected in weddings, funerals and end-of-life planning.
From families trying to override someone’s funeral plans…
to aged care environments that don’t feel safe to express identity…
to the absence of “rainbow sections” in cemeteries…
These are real experiences — and they’re changeable.
This week, being an ally can look like:
• Using someone’s correct name and pronouns
• Asking who a person trusts and wants included in decision-making
• Learning about chosen family and how it matters in end-of-life planning
• Supporting inclusive services and practitioners
Kindness is powerful.
Visibility is powerful.
Listening is powerful.
Listen to the full episode here: Don’t Be Caught Dead (Bronte Price — “Beyond the Grave: Fighting Heteronormativity in Funerals and Weddings”)
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