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Flat Out Inc. is a Victorian support and advocacy service for women, trans & gender diverse people facing criminalisation. We are community-based.

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Turns out you were all as shocked and appalled as I was to see @australianlabor teaming up with the Coalition to block a bill banning the shackling of women during childbirth.

No one should lose their right to dignity and safe care just because they’re in prison. No one deserves to give birth in chains.

Solidarity with @senatorthorpe and everyone fighting to end this cruelty ✊

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Shameful to see the Minister for Women justify the continued shackling of women giving birth. The inquiry showed that the Commonwealth has power to stop this. People need to realise that when the Albanese government calls this a state and territory issue, that’s not a legal argument, it’s a choice they are making.

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🔥 Support Beyond Bricks & Bars this GiveOUT Day!

This Thursday 15 October, every donation up to $1,750 will be matched and doubled. Your $20 becomes $40! 🔥

For 8 years, BBB has fought alongside incarcerated and formerly incarcerated trans and gender diverse (TGD) people for safety, healthcare, dignity and freedom from violence.

In the past 12 months, we've supported 79 TGD people - 50 women, 25 nonbinary people and 4 men. 30% are Aboriginal TGD people, reflecting the ongoing intersection of racism, transphobia and criminalisation.

Currently, 39 people are inside prisons across Victoria and NSW, receiving ongoing support, counselling, advocacy and connection to community.

Right now in Victoria, 99% of trans women in custody are placed in men's prisons, facing daily risks of sexual, physical and psychological violence and harm. In the past 18 months, no trans women have been permitted to enter the women's prison system.

We will continue to fight until all our community are free from harm.

BBB's support doesn't end at the prison gates. We currently support 40 people in the community, including 29 people supported to leave prison and stay out, and 11 supported to remain in the community, preventing incarceration.

✨ Your GiveOUT Day donation will help fund:

💘 Peer Support Group: A fortnightly, peer-led space for formerly incarcerated TGD people to build connection, share knowledge and reduce isolation.

💘 Prison Counselling: Free, confidential, gender-affirming counselling. Since August 2025, over 40 TGD people have accessed this vital support.

💘 Emergency Brokerage: Crisis accommodation, gender-affirming clothing, food, medication, safe transport, phone credit and resources for people inside and outside prison..

Every donation enables BBB to continue and build our life-saving project.

❤️ Donate now ahead of this GiveOUT Day - link in bio ❤️

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I need your help and your phone, Albanese and his friends in the Liberal party are coming together to reject my Bill to ban shackling during childbirth. They are one and the same. Please get your phones and call their offices:

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland: (02) 6277 7300

Senator Michaelia Cash, Shadow Attorney-General: (02) 6277 3045

And it goes without saying but please be respectful to their staff.

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This is just some of what we heard at today’s hearing about ending strip searching of children. Thank you to Tabitha, Dan, Matcho, Aunty Vicky, Kelly, Benjamin, Tia, Tanika, and Nancy for speaking.

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We oppose strip searching and endorse all five recommendations of the Ending strip searching in Australian prisons report.

"It calls for alternative methods, such as scanners, to replace strip searching — stressing that this should still only be used if absolutely necessary. It demands that all state and territory governments ban strip searching in law, recommends that prisons be independently monitored and calls law reform to improve access to justice for people in prison. Like the decades-old, but yet to be implemented, recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the report makes the case to address the mass imprisonment crisis by building community supports to divert people away from prisons."

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A better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody is possible – and we’re building it together.

To every organisation that has stood behind our Transforming Care in Custody campaign: thank you.

Almost 30 organisations have now signed onto our position statement. Your support, solidarity and commitment are helping turn a clear vision for change into a call that can’t be ignored.

This work is about creating a future where care is self-determined, culturally safe and led by the people and organisations who know what works.

Here's who's helping make change happen →

Aboriginal organisations:

Sisters Inside, Djirra, Treaty for Victoria, Gamarada Universal Indigenous Resources, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative, Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative, Mooji Aboriginal Council, Bendigo and District Aboriginal Cooperative, Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association, Mallee District Aboriginal Services, Murray Valley Aboriginal Corporation, and Victorian Aboriginal Health Service.

Mainstream organisations:

Burnet Institute, Jesuit Social Services, Human Rights Law Centre, Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria, FIGJAM, Fitzroy Legal Service, Law & Advocacy Centre for Women, ANTAR, Knowmore Legal Service, Young People's Legal Rights Centre, Alternative gFirst Responders, Vacro, Nationals Justice Project, Justice Reform Initiative, and Justice Health Group

And we’re not done yet. Watch this space – there’s more work to come → vaccho.org.au/transforming-care-in-custody

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This week, we launched Dignity Behind Bars with @flatout.inc, highlighting a critical gap in Victoria: there is no standalone, dedicated legal service for people in prison.

Women, trans and gender diverse people in prison are experiencing discrimination, violence and the rampant use of solitary confinement - all while being denied access to the legal help they need.

That’s why we’re calling for a dedicated legal service for women, trans and gender diverse people in Victorian prisons, to help people enforce their rights and access justice.

Care is the antidote. It’s time for the Carroll Government to act.

#AusLaw #AusPol #AustralianNew

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Every person should be able to challenge mistreatment when their rights are violated.

Our new joint report Dignity Behind Bars with @flatout.inc exposes how women, trans and gender diverse people in prison are exposed to discrimination, violence and the systemic use of solitary confinement - all while being denied access to the legal help they need.

That’s why we’re calling for a dedicated legal service for women, trans and gender diverse people in Victoria’s prisons. This would give people access to justice and challenge abuses behind prison walls, starting with critical issues like solitary confinement and parole.

🔗 Read the full report at the link in bio.

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