This article mentions suicide and contains material some readers may find upsetting.
Victorian Coroner Ingrid Giles last week handed down her findings in the inquest into the suicide of young transgender woman Bridget Flack and four other suicides by members of the trans and gender-diverse (TGD) communities between 2020 and 2021. The report was damning of both Victoria’s public health system and Victoria Police.
On December 1, 2020, Flack was registered as a missing person after she was last seen by a friend on Lygon St in Carlton, Melbourne. Her disappearance sparked extensive searches coordinated predominantly by community amid dense bushland along the Yarra Bend in Melbourne’s northeast.
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