Reuters, March 6, SYDNEY – Georgina Beyer, a New Zealander who was the first openly transgender member of parliament and a steadfast supporter of LGBTQ rights, passed away at age 65.
Although she had long struggled with kidney disease, the reason of death was not mentioned in reports of her passing.
Beyer actor, and drag queen, served as mayor of Carterton, a small town on New Zealand’s North Island, for several years before being chosen to do in the national parliament in 1999. Until 2007, she was a Labour MP.
She was honored with a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for her contributions to the rainbow community. She was well-known for decriminalizing prostitution and advancing the legalization of lesbian marriage and civil unions.
Here we given the tweet of her:
New Zealand’s Georgina Beyer, world’s first openly transgender MP, dies https://t.co/nJAUn1b4MT pic.twitter.com/K0m7jrBYrz
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 6, 2023
“I support this bill for all the prostitutes I have ever known who have died before the age of 20 because of the inhumanity and hypocrisy of a society that would never give them a chance to redeem whatever circumstances made them arrive in that industry,” she said in 2003 when speaking before parliament about the issue of prostitution reform.
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She unsuccessfully campaigned for parliament in 2014 on behalf of the former Mana Party and is of Maori origin. After suffering from end-stage renal failure for four years and needing daily dialysis, Beyer underwent a kidney transplant in 2017.
She passed away on Monday while receiving hospice care, according to a friend’s Facebook post by Scotty Kennedy.
“Georgie was surrounded by her nearest and dearest 24 hours a day for the past week; she accepted what was occurring, was making jokes, and had a twinkle in her eye, right up until the very last second,” Kennedy wrote.
