A strategy is a plan for how we will do things in the future.

The NDIA told Reference Group members that they’re creating a new strategy to support gender equality.

Your gender is what you feel and understand about who you are as a person.

You might think of yourself as a man or a woman or something different.

You can choose the words that are right for you.

Gender equality is when all genders are treated:

• fairly
• equally
• with respect.

The strategy will:

• look at how fair the NDIS is for participants of different genders

• find out what the NDIA has to do to improve gender equality.

Members said it’s important the strategy includes:

• the needs of women
• the voices of transgender women.

Transgender is when a person’s gender is different from the one they were given when they were born.