Keep up to date with us as the US election is only six days away, Emily Johnson provides us with a breakdown of everything you need to know with one of the most intense second debates in American history.

Beau Driscoll brings us a report on trans and diverse mental health issues and speaks to members of the trans community about their experience being a trans person during the pandemic. For trans support services go to Trans Pride Australia.

Elderly LGBT people are one of the most vulnerable communities especially during the pandemic who experience isolation and loneliness. Switchboard Australia has been working for half a decade to address this issue with its program Out and About.

Switchboard Australia CEO Joe Ball tells us more about this program and why it matters.

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Thankfully, there’s a way you can recycle your paint: Paintback, a not-for-profit organisation established in Australia in 2016, will take your unused paint and paint cans off your hands and recycle them in an environmentally friendly way. 

To find out more, Arion Potts spoke with the Chief Executive of Paintback, Karen Gomez. 

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The electronic health records system has been in existence for several years but previously required specific patient opt-in and agreement for their information to be shared across their doctors and health care providers.

That default is about to change, with Australian’s key health information from GP visits, prescriptions, test results and imaging data such as x-rays to be made available in one secure electronic record – when you most need it. That is the proposed benefit but there are real concerns about privacy for the LGTBI community and how the reformed system will work in practice.

Tonight, in this special edition of The Informer, we hear from community about what they see as the benefits and concerns and how this impacts all of us. Whilst My Health Record might improve our health services it also raises concerns about who knows what about our sensitive health information.

Ian Muchamore speaks with Kent Burgess, Head of Services at Thorne Harbour Health about what My Health Record means for the community. He then speaks with Joshua Badge, an Academic at Deakin University on specific community concerns, and finally he speaks with Meredith Makeham, the Chief Medical Advisor of the Australian Digital Health Agency, the agency responsible for the rollout.

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In the final part of our special report, Ian Muchamore speaks to Meredith Makeham, the Chief Medical Advisor of the Australian Digital Health Agency

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As Ian Muchamore speaks with Joshua Badge an academic at Deakin University.

Joshua speaks to some specific concerns about My Health Record and the impact it may have on people living with HIV, sex workers, and those who use illicit drugs.

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Ian Muchamore begins this special report by to Kent Burgess, Head of Services at Thorne Harbour Health, about what My Health Record means for the community

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The Laird in Melbourne is one of Australia’s longest running gay-owned and operated venues. In 1998 The Laird and Club 80 were granted ‘Male-only’ status by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in deference to their history and service to the gay community.

While that is still a status they maintain to this day, The Laird has progressed over the years to become a haven, meeting place and party space for same-sex attracted CIS and Trans males, catering to a wide range of men who identify as men both locally and around the world. Joining us now is Brett Lasham, Co Owner of the laird Brett Lasham speaks to The Informer about this updated policy and how it came about.

But most importantly, just before we went to air,  it was announced that the AFL has told transgender footballer Hannah Mouncey that she is not eligible to be selected at tomorrows AFL womens  draft. Mouncey began transitioning in 2015 and played eight games in the Canberra Women’s competition. The AFL said in a statement that Mouncey would have had an “unreasonable advantage” over other AFLW players. The AFL has made a decision that the physical disparity between Hannah and other AFLW players is significant, in that it would have an effect on the AFLW competition and give rise to an unreasonable advantage.

We discuss the fairness of this, but as it is breaking, this will be explored more in depth on the next episode of The Informer.

Ian and Dean are your hosts for this episode.

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