• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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).

    • Cris@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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 :)