Our outdated mental health system has a legacy of pathologising particular people. We've seen this in the hearings for the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill and Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill, where we are still experiencing the homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and interphobia that is the legacy of rainbow identities being misdiagnosed as mental disorders. It is not our diverse genders, sexualities, and sex characteristics that leads to anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide; it is the discrimination against us. Rainbow groups such as Te Ngākau Kahukura, OutLine, InsideOUT, RainbowYOUTH, Gender Minorities Aotearoa, and PATHA have all identified the rise in mental health concerns just in the last few weeks because of those hearings, as anti-trans lobbyists use this national platform and their considerable privilege to deny the humanity of our takatāpui, trans, non-binary, and intersex whānau and to spread hate and misinformation against some of the most marginalised people in our communities. Until we amend the Human Rights Act, though, and sort out some hate speech laws, there's little to stop them doing so.