Good Evening everyone. This is ABC News. I'm Jefferson Dufflecoat.

Our main story tonight focuses on the continuing plight of Transgender Australians. The issue has once again been brought to the spotlight with several stories and reports coming to light in the past few days.

The first big event was an announcement by the Victorian RSL that the issue of allowing soldiers who served in the wars of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan who have since transitioned to march in the ANZAC Day marches would be left to local branches, leading many regional centres to ban transgendered people from marching. ABC News understands that marches in Bendigo, Mildura, Shepparton and Traralgon are the main branches and marches effected by the bans, covering close to 50 transgendered veterans. Many regional centres in other states have privately expressed a desire to follow the Victorian lead but thus far state RSL's in other states have kept either an inclusive policy such as the ACT, and Tasmania or have not answered the ABC calls for clarification, such as in the case of NSW, South and Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

In Victoria, plans are already in progress to hold a separate private gathering for transgendered veterans affected by the bans are already in place and are expected to be held in Federation Square on Saturday.

The bans come on the heels of a damning independent report commissioned by ABC News on the treatment of Trans prisoners in Australia's prison systems. Of the approximately 700 transgendered people in Australia's prison system, more than 90% have been sent to a prison that is not for the gender they identify with.

Worse for those trans prisoners, up to two thirds of those housed in the wrong prison, due to concerns for their safety and well being have spent more than three months in solitary confinement, without any interaction with any other people besides the hour a day they are let out for exercise and showering purposes.

It is important however to note, that many people in the prison systems are sympathetic to the prisoners plight but express there is no other place to house them as the rules are not defined enough by state and federal governments.

There is also the controversial issue of trans people in sport, with Netball the latest to ban trans females from playing in female competitions, many governments have considered this to be a decision for the organizations behind each sport but the continued isolation of transgendered people in society has continued to be driven home, with many unable to access assistance and aid for housing to escape abusive relationships or to help them through the growing cost of living crisis. Many are calling on government for solutions to the problem and there are growing fears the meeting for the transgendered veterans in Victoria could turn into a catalyst for an showing of anger at the continuing treatment of trans people around the country.

This is ABC News.