As the chair of our Labour rainbow caucus, it's my pleasure to take a call on this bill; a vital bill and an important bill and piece of legislation for our rainbow whānau, our LGBTIQ+ plus plus whānau, the takatāpui whānau and their communities, parents, and families. Today we see you, we hear you, and here we are together. I see this legislation as another step to building a progressive and inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand and Labour has always, always stood with our rainbow communities: in 1986, homosexual law reform; 2001, inclusion in the property relations Act; 2004, civil unions; 2012, equal marriage; 2018, expunging historical homosexual convictions. In this term of Government, we established the rainbow legacy fund to support organisations working to improve mental health and wellbeing of our rainbow communities, we increased access to gender affirming genital surgery, we increased funding for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention services and research. And Labour is relentlessly proud of our rainbow communities and their whānau.