Gender and Sexuality: Expanding Possibilities

Young people lead conversations about gender and sexuality despite conservative resistance: - Pride celebrations spreading across territories - Trans visibility increasing - Indigenous gender concepts reviving - Feminist movements strengthening - Masculinity definitions expanding

"Fa'afafine always existed in Polynesia. Colonization imposed binary," educates Tahitian LGBTQ+ activist Rotui Delice. "We're not importing Western ideas—we're decolonizing gender."

Intersectional approaches emerge: - Connecting LGBTQ+ rights with racial justice - Environmental feminism movements - Disability inclusion advocacy - Sex worker rights campaigns - Reproductive justice organizing

"All oppressions connect. All liberations too," philosophizes New Caledonian feminist Joséphine Wéa. "Youth understand this intuitively."