Supporting the LGBTIQA+ community
The Skin Firm team supports the LGBTIQA+ community and has adopted the following principles from the AUSTRALIAN LGBTIQA+ POLICY GUIDE 2020, developed by The Equality Project, Australia.
The Skin Firm LGBTIQA+ Principles
FAIRNESS
The conviction that all Australians have the right to live in a just and transparent society while being protected from the abuse of power in all spheres.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The fundamental rights that recognise and respect the intrinsic value, self-determination, and dignity of all persons.
These include freedom of belief, freedom from need and want, freedom from discrimination, freedom of association, freedom to found a family, and the right to bodily autonomy.
EQUALITY
The ability of all Australians to choose and pursue the same opportunities as others without experiencing significantly more barriers than any other person.
INTERSECTIONALITY
An acknowledgement that people are inherently multi-faceted, both in terms of their status(es) within LGBTIQA+ communities and a wide range of other important attributes, and that human rights should apply to all parts of a person.
Yogyakarta Principles Plus 10: Additional Principles and State Obligations on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics, to Complement the Yogyakarta Principles recognises “that the needs, characteristics and human rights situations of persons and populations of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics are distinct from each other”, and notes “that sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics are each distinct and intersectional grounds of discrimination, and that they may be, and commonly are, compounded by discrimination on other grounds including race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sex, gender, language, religion, belief, political or other opinion, nationality, national or social origin, economic and social situation, birth, age, disability, health (including HIV status), migration,
marital or family status, being a human rights defender or other status” (2017, http://www. yogyakartaprinciples.org/principles-en/yp10, Preamble).
SELF-ADVOCACY
Policy that is developed by and with the people with lived experience of the phenomena associated with that policy will be more likely to adequately define those phenomena, engage complexity, and propose effective solutions than policy that is developed mostly by actors and agents who speak and work on behalf of people with lived experience.
