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It’s Pride month and the LGBTQIA+ community are outraged by what is seen as a “transphobic” facebook comment by senior Auckland Transport staff Stephen Rainbow. (File photo)
Auckland Transport is investigating a social media post by a member of management about gay conversion therapy, which has sparked anger and allegations of transphobia from a council employee. On Tuesday night, AT’s Stephen Rainbow replied to a post in the Rainbow Auckland Networking Group on Facebook. The post was calling for people to sign a petition to ban gay conversion therapy. Rainbow’s reply said: “be careful.there’s some elements of the trans agenda being sneakily promoted through this campaign”.