The title of this recording is "Georgia Andrews - Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand". It is described as: Interview with Georgia Andrews, from the documentary Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand. It was recorded in Rainbow Room, Parliament buildings, Molesworth Street, Wellington on the 4th April 2019. Georgia Andrews is presenting.  Their name is spelt correctly but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 5 minutes, but this may not reflect the actual length of the proceedings. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. The content in the recording covers the 2010s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: In a recording at the Rainbow Room, Parliament buildings in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, Georgia Andrews, the chairperson of Intersex Awareness New Zealand and project manager of intersex youth Aotearoa, shared a personal and wider community narrative regarding intersex people's battles with shame, secrecy, and acceptance. Andrews was diagnosed with an intersex variation at the age of 16 and struggled with the concealment advised by doctors, the wrongful assertion of uniqueness, and the fear of alienation and ostracism from one's community. Efforts to cope with this situation led Andrews to reach out to international intersex networks, and after years of searching, a connection was finally made with another intersex individual in Aotearoa through American contacts. The talk reflected on the changes and constants over the decade from 2009 to 2019. One significant positive development was the explosion of online resources and visibility for intersex individuals, going from a few hits in a search query to over twenty thousand. However, Andrews highlighted that families are still counseled to maintain silence about intersex variations, even in current times, perpetuating stigma and isolation. Andrews underscored the transformation that this journey sparked. Finding a global intersex community allowed Andrews to travel widely, forge close friendships on every continent, and eventually embrace a career supporting young people experiencing similar challenges. This position facilitated a shift from carrying anger to enabling empowerment and cultivating pride among youth in their intersex identity and as part of the broader LGBTQIA+ community. Evidencing the evolution in societal attitudes towards gender diversity, Andrews described the representation of 'rainbow' identities within political spheres. The recording took place in the context of the ILGA World Conference, which showcased the New Zealand Parliament's commitment to LGBTQIA+ issues, including MPs who are openly part of the rainbow community. This example of progressive attitudes serves as an inspiration for youth to assume agency and assert themselves, highlighting a movement where the youth are passionately advocating for their rights and recognition. The presentation in the Rainbow Room also sheds light on the role of political institutions as powerful platforms for change in attitudes towards intersex individuals and the broader LGBTQIA+ community. The recording illustrates New Zealand's position as a country that honors and celebrates its diverse spectrum of identities, promoting inclusivity and pushing for authentic representation within governmental structures. In summary, Andrews' narrative from the presentation, captured in the archive, draws attention to the journey from isolation to community-building among intersex individuals, the struggles against societal pressures to remain hidden, and the ongoing efforts to foster acceptance, visibility, and advocacy. The recording serves as a testimony not only to the personal resolve and transformation of an individual but also to the broader community’s strides towards a more inclusive society. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  Kia ora, my name's Georgia Andrews. I am the chairperson of Intersex Awareness New Zealand and project manage intersex youth Aotearoa. Both roles are based here in Wellington. I was diagnosed with an intersex variation when I was 16 years old. Uh, intersex is an umbrella term to describe people born with variations of sex characteristics, which don't clearly fit the binary definition of a male or female body. [00:00:30] When I was diagnosed, I was told by my doctors not to tell anybody and my family were told to keep it a secret. I realized much later in my journey that doctors had actually kept my intersex test results from me and had known longer than I had that I was intersex. So I lived many years in shame with the idea in my head from doctors that if I told anyone about my diagnosis that I would become a [00:01:00] radical flag waving activist and would be ousted by the local community. I was also told that If I moved back into the local area, I would become depressed, and so this is when I was at boarding school. So I thought that I would never be able to return to a life with my family. That was a very hard concept to hold, but the most difficult thing was I was told I would never meet anyone else like me. That I was the only person in the world like me who was intersex. [00:01:30] So I was lost, I felt alienated, and I thought, what am I going to do to change this? I was holding anger and I couldn't carry that anger anymore. I reached out to international intersex networks and it took four years before I connected with my first intersex partner. person here in Aotearoa and that was through Connections in America. So it's, that was back in 2000, starting my journey in [00:02:00] 2009. We moved for 10 and look at things that have shifted and things that have stayed the same. There is still a huge amount of shame and secrecy around. And not only intersex bodies, but the identities of those people that don't sit in a heteronormative framework of male and female straight identity. For me, as a lesbian woman, I also hold a narrative of [00:02:30] being intersex and lesbian, and that holds many challenges. An exciting thing in 2019 is the development that has happened across international intersex networks, specifically in terms of the outreach that our young people have to community. In 2009, if I was to search intersex online, I'd be lucky if I got four or five search results. Now you'll get 20, 000 search results, so things are shifting. But on the negative [00:03:00] side of things, internationally there is still shame associated with diagnosis, and families are told, even in 2019 with young infants, that they should not share their intersex story, that they are the only people, and there's no community to support them. I.. I feel very privileged to be intersex because I have been able to connect with family all around the world, my intersex family. I have intersex friends, very close friends, in every continent of the world, which is [00:03:30] amazing. It's allowed me to travel, it has built.. me into a career where I am able to support young people who are going through trials and tribulations, but showing them that there are positive ways forward when they're told that there sometimes aren't. And that's really fulfilling to see that people don't have to wait to be connected to community. They can be proud of their identities as an intersex person or as a member of the [00:04:00] LGBTQIA plus community. I also think that It's really exciting to see the level of rainbow representation, particularly here at Parliament. I was part of a hostropu for the ILGA World Conference. We had people here from well over a hundred different countries who were astounded to see not only rainbow flags flying outside Parliament, but MPs here [00:04:30] proudly saying that they were members of the rainbow community. I think, you know, it's easy to take for granted the privileged position we are here, we hold here in Aotearoa, where our MPs are able to support us in that way. They are a real inspiration for our youth, and I think that our youth movement is the way forward. We have youth who are inspired to take authority over their decision making process, youth who are willing to stand up and be [00:05:00] heard. We are able to embrace that diversity as a country and it's something to be honoured. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. The tags are seperated by a semi-colon: 2010s ; Aotearoa New Zealand ; Georgia Andrews ; Parliament buildings ; People ; Rainbow Room ; Wellington ; Youth ; anger ; binary ; boarding school ; career ; change ; community ; conference ; connect ; connections ; diversity ; family ; flags ; flying ; friends ; identity ; inspiration ; intersex ; journey ; lesbian ; narrative ; outreach ; peace ; pool ; project management ; rainbow ; representation ; school ; shame ; straight ; support ; travel. The original recording can be heard at this website https://www.pridenz.com/rainbow_voices_of_aotearoa_new_zealand_georgia_andrews.html. The master recording is also archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.  For more details visit their website https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.1089889. Georgia Andrews also features audibly in the following recordings: "Rainbow Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand documentary". 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