Community Law
Your local Community Law Centre can provide you with free initial legal advice.
Find your local Community Law Centre online: www.communitylaw.org.nz/our-law-centres
Access the free “Lag Law: Your Rights Inside Prison and on Release” book. This book contains practical answers to common questions relating to prisoner rights, including transgender rights in prison. A useful guide for people going to prison, in prison, or getting out of prison and their whānau.
Online: www.communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/prisoners-rights-chapter-1-before-prison-the-criminal-court-process/before-prison-the-criminal-court-process
Email for a hard copy: laglaw@wclc.org.nz
Phone: Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley – 04 499 2928
InsideOUT
InsideOUT is a national organisation that provides workshops, resources and support to help make schools, community organisations and workplaces inclusive for rainbow people.
Website: www.insideout.org.nz
Email: hello@insideout.org.nz
Phone: 027 331 4507
Instagram: www.instagram.com/insideoutkoaro
Facebook: www.facebook.com/insideoutkoaro
Gender Minorities Aotearoa
Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a nationwide organisation providing support and information to transgender people.
Website: www.genderminorities.com
Email: support@genderminorities.com
Phone: 04 385 0611
Naming New Zealand
Naming NZ is an organisation to help transgender, gender-diverse and intersex youth with updating their identity documents to correctly reflect their sex and gender.
Website: www.ry.org.nz/namingnz
Intersex Aotearoa
Intersex Aotearoa are an intersex-led education, lobbying, advocacy and peer support organisation in Aotearoa, welcoming all people with intersex variations in Aotearoa, whānau and friends.
Website: www.intersexaotearoa.org
Email: info@intersexaotearoa.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/intersexyaotearoa
Facebook: www.facebook.com/intersexaotearoa
Genderbridge
Genderbridge is a peer-to-peer transgender community organisation providing support to transgender and gender-diverse people, their whānau and friends throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/genderbridge
OutLine
OutLine is a confidential, free, all-ages support line that provides rainbow specialist counselling and trans and non-binary peer support. Call for free from 6pm-9pm.
Website: www.outline.org.nz
Phone: 0800 688 5463
Instagram: www.instagram.com/OUTlineAotearoa
Facebook: www.facebook.com/outlineaotearoa
Rainbow Rights in Aotearoa
RainbowYOUTH and YouthLaw have collaborated to provide information about the various legal rights afforded to people living in Aotearoa, and how they relate to queer, intersex and gender diverse people.
Website: www.rainbowrights.nz
Rainbow Youth
RainbowYOUTH provides a number of services for queer and gender-diverse youth and their wider communities all across Aotearoa.
Website: www.ry.org.nz
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rainbowyouth
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rainbowyouth
Q Youth
Q Youth is a charity run by youth for youth in Nelson. Q Youth provides support, training and education to rainbow youth, friends, family and whānau.
Website: www.qyouthnz.com
Email: office.q.youth@gmail.com
Department of Internal Affairs
The Department of Internal Affairs processes applications to legally change your name.
Website: www.govt.nz/browse/passports-citizenship-and-identity/changing-your-name/change-your-own-name
Phone: 0800 22 52 52
NZ Transport Agency
The NZTA deals with changes to drivers’ licences, including changing your name or gender on your driver’s licence.
Website: www.nzta.govt.nz/driver-licences/renewing-replacing-and-updating/updating-your-licence
Phone: 0800 822 422
Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand
Te Whatu Ora has guidance for health professionals dealing with transgender people and information on gender affirming surgeries.
Website: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/our-health-system/preventative-healthwellness/providing-health-services-for-transgender-people
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata/Human Rights Commission
See the Human Rights Commission website for information about human rights and discrimination in Aotearoa. It outlines how you can make a complaint to the Commission.
Website: www.tikatangata.org.nz or www.hrc.co.nz
Email: infoline@hrc.co.nz
Phone: 0800 496 877 (0800 4 YOUR RIGHTS)
To make a complaint online, download a complaint form or find out more about the complaints process: www.tikatangata.org.nz/resources-and-support/make-a-complaint
Other resource of interest: “To be who I am: Report on the Inquiry into Discrimination Experienced by Transgender People”: www.tikatangata.org.nz/our-work/to-be-who-i-am-report-on-the-inquiry-into-discrimination-experienced-by-transgender-people
Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service
The Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service offers free, independent, and confidential advice to support you making a complaint about health and disability services.
Website: www.advocacy.org.nz
Email: advocacy@advocacy.org.nz
Phone: 0800 555 050
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
MBIE has some guidance for employers with transgender employees.
Website: www.employment.govt.nz/starting-employment/hiring/discrimination-when-hiring/transgender-employees
Department of Corrections
The Prisons Operations Manual Policy outlines the procedure for determining where to place transgender and intersex prisoners in prison (see Movements M.03.05).
Website: www.corrections.govt.nz/resources/policy_and_legislation/Prison-Operations-Manual/Movement/M.03-Specified-gender-and-age-movements/M.03.05-Transgender-prisoner
