Polare 40

Issued December 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

Gender Centre Manager Elizabeth Riley updates us on the NSW Police Service Transgender Policy, the Department for Women Working Policy, the Gay Games and the Metropolitan Community Church, by Elizabeth Riley

A Plague Undetected

Fourteen years ago, when Barbara Cassis was a 24-year-old man, she asked a family physician to give her hormones so she could become a woman. He prescribed a visit to a psychiatrist instead, by Nina Siega

My Story: Arriving In Australia With Two Sexes

Although I was born officially male, and due to an obstinate and ignorant British government, that still remains on my birth certificate, even though I have lived as, and have a passport as a female for 30 years, by Tracie O'Keefe

My View: Fear, The Great Motivator

We all like to believe that our actions and activities, our thoughts and understandings are all premeditated, that what we do is rational, sensible and logical in progression; but in truth, often they are not, by Sarah Rutherford

Transmen: Black & White, And All Colours In-between

>My son, they say, will have to choose. Black. Or white. All the papers he will face will only offer those boxes. All his friends will want to know., by Loree Cook-Daniels

Health Report: What Is Hepatitis C?

Hepatitis is the general name for several different illnesses which all cause the same problem: an inflamed (swollen or painful) liver, Author Unknown

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