Mx Aych McArdle, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to the rainbow community
Aych McArdle was an executive board member and Education Director of RainbowYouth. They have designed programmes for Higher Ground, a drug rehabilitation service. With RainbowYouth, they co-led the nationwide Inside Out project to support schools to talk about gender and sexuality and address bullying of rainbow youth. They have been a member, executive board member and recent co-chair of OutLine Aotearoa, a national rainbow mental health organisation. They were OutLine’s governance lead for Spark’s ‘Beyond Binary Code’, helping co-design companies’ collection of gender data practices to be more appropriate and respectful. Mx McArdle supported the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand with their central government and United Nations engagement.