Rights & Realities: Remembering 1986
Jul 8, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Disability Rights Commissioner and Commission Rainbow rights spokesperson, Prudence Walker, and legal scholar and advocate Vinod Bal talk about closing the gaps, legal vs social…
Vinod BahlGuest
Prudence WalkerGuestSome might ask why trans, non-binary and intersex communities are experiencing such regression and still facing the same prejudice and discrimination they did 20 years ago.
Here's Georgina Baier, the first openly trans MP in the world at the Enough is Enough protest march in 2004.
You're not going to win, you haven't.
I have trust in New Zealanders that they will be fair-minded as they always have been because the democracy that I live in made it possible for somebody like me to be here in this place serving the privilege of service to people in New Zealand and you would deny me rights.
Why do you do that?
In this episode, Disability Rights Commissioner and Commission Rainbow Rights Spokesperson, Prudence Walker, and legal scholar and advocate, Vinod Bahl, talk about closing the gaps, legal versus social progress, and what a future of belonging looks like for everyone under the rainbow.
And they ask, who feels included now?
Some might ask why trans, non-binary and intersex communities are experiencing such regression and still facing the same prejudice and discrimination they did 20 years ago.
Here's Georgina Baier, the first openly trans MP in the world at the Enough is Enough protest march in 2004.
You're not going to win, you haven't.
I have trust in New Zealanders that they will be fair-minded as they always have been because the democracy that I live in made it possible for somebody like me to be here in this place serving the privilege of service to people in New Zealand and you would deny me rights.
Why do you do that?
In this episode, Disability Rights Commissioner and Commission Rainbow Rights Spokesperson, Prudence Walker, and legal scholar and advocate, Vinod Bahl, talk about closing the gaps, legal versus social progress, and what a future of belonging looks like for everyone under the rainbow.
And they ask, who feels included now?
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