Polare 35

Issued February 2000

(The Gender Centre advise that this edition of Polare is not current and as such certain content, including but not limited to persons, contact details and dates may not apply. Where legal authority or medical related matters are cited, responsibility lies with the reader to obtain the most current relevant legal authority and/or medical publication.)

Coordinator's Report

Report from the Gender Centre's General Manager includes information on Petersham T.A.F.E. and Transphobic Violence, by Elizabeth Riley

Not My Child: Disowning & Other Abuses of Trans Children

G.L.B.T. children are regularly disowned - and the streets of the big cities are filled with these children. They are the children who were caught dressing up at young ages, and had their love and emotional support withdrawn., by Susan Cooke

My Story: Staying Around, A Strategy For Transitioning in a Small Town

I used to be an Ambulance officer in my community, a position that ensured that I am relatively well known in town., by Gina

My View

Emotionally, I do not feel totally female or male. Emotionally, physically and sexually, I fit somewhere between the two. After many years of struggling to cope, the silence was broken, when I finally discovered that I was born intersex., by Pissed Off Hermaphrodyke

Transmen: Phalloplasty Stage 1

Michael describes his sex reassignment surgery experience with Dr. David Hunter-Smith in Melbourne, by Michael

Health Report: The Admission of Hormone Treatment to Transgendered People

When the transgendered person requests hormones, providing there are no serious medical contraindications, they should be allowed to legally imbibe those hormones without moral judgement from others, including the medical establishment., by Dr. Tracie O'Keefe

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