Why I’m Sweating with Pride
This June, I'm doing Sweat With Pride because I am angry.
In 2026, queer people in Aotearoa are expected to defend their right to exist. I am angry that trans people continue to be a political talking point. How dare you reduce trans and queer identity to headlines, debates, and identity politics soundbites, regardless of who is carrying the burden of your harm, or what you actually believe in? I'm angry that the Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill can be proposed at all, normalising the public scrutiny of people's identities.
So much of this feels imported. We've seen the US descend into endless moral panic about gender and sexuality. Rather than learning from the harm it has caused, people chase division over issues that were never there. It is insane to me, through cost of living, homelessness, inequity, healthcare issues and so much else, people in power spend time arguing about whether others have a right to exist. Queer people have always existed. Trans people have always existed. Both throughout societies everywhere, long before colonisation.
The consequences are that we lose lives. Discrimination in healthcare, harassment in public, exclusion in institutions designed against them, and ridiculously disproportionate rates of mental health issues, self-harm and suicide. This is the result of systems that repeatedly tell people they are not worthy of safety, dignity, and belonging. I have been shocked at conversations I hear day to day, the way people will blindly follow harmful narratives that were made to distract us.
It is so easy to become so overwhelmed and depressed by this rise of hatred, but conformity is never something we will grant them. There has always been hope in our communities that continue to love, create and organise. Protect our trans whānau.
Thank you for your support <3>
My Fundraising
Impact
$100
Provides vital resources to support Rainbow communities
$300
Free, confidential mental health support for Rainbow Kiwis
$500
Ensures more people can access life-changing health services without cost barriers
$1,000
Fund an educational workshop to create safer, more inclusive spaces
$2,500
Provides a full day of community outreach, to improve wellbeing and reduce stigma on a large scale
💖 I’m $1,500 away from my next impact milestone. Will you help me reach it?
Track My
Sweat
My sweat goal was 21 minutes per day in June
Stats reflect challenge period (1–30 June) only
My Fundraising
Ranking
I’m #135 out of 4,091 Sweaty Bettys
Georgia Dearing
Raised
$1,000
My Generous
Sponsors
$100
Dad
$100
althea
♡
$80
Joan Merced
love love love u georgia !!
$68
Rosie
So proud of you!!
$50
Kaylee Schulze
$50
Alicia Dearing
Proud aunty. Xx
$50
Sweaty Besties
Keep on sweating! Arohanui, 2degrees, AA Insurance, ASB, and Auckland Council.
$50
Nana
They need your wisdom in Wellington Georgia
$50
Siobhan McFarlane
$50
Brianna Wilton
$46
althea
double day! ♡
$30
Georgia Dearing
$28
Dagmara Rudolph
$25
Tess Bos
Well done Georgia! You're have a big heart and heart for the good cause ❤️
$20
Miah Dearing
Love you and that ur doing this xx
$20
Bo Klijn
So so proud of you!!!
$20
Yue Pilbrow
$20
Amy
Go Georgia!
$20
Ash
What you’re doing is amazing Georgia! Keep it up xx
$15
Bo Klijn
$15
harlow tran
$15
miss lea
go queen 💕💯
$15
Sweaty Besties
Keep on sweating! Arohanui, 2degrees, AA Insurance, ASB, and Auckland Council.
$15
Abigail Dromgool
$10
Meg
$10
Anthony
Go Georgia!
$10
Taylor
$8
Sweaty Besties
Keep on sweating! Arohanui, 2degrees, AA Insurance, ASB, and Auckland Council.
$8
Mahek
$2
Olivia
Luv u G
Stop sitting on the fence my beautiful daughter lol.