Polare 49

Issued December 2002

(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.)

Editorial

As you may have noticed from the cover of this issue, we are commemorating 50 year anniversary of the first widely publicised transsexual in modern times, Christine Jorgensen, who was outed by the press in December 1952, by Katherine Cummings

Tribute to Christine Jorgensen

Jorgensen recounts, her celebrity began December 1, 1952 when a banner headline screaming ex-G.I. becomes blonde beauty: operations transform Bronx youth; greeted readers of the New York Daily News, by Susan Stryker

My Story: A Kiwi Takes Flight

Juliet describes the increased self-confidence that she is experiencing as a result of taking charge of her gender transition and beginning to do volunteer work, by Juliet Scoble

Book Reviews: "Middlesex" & "Sublime Mutations"

The genetic condition 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome (5-A.R.D.) is well suited to Eugenides' fictional intentions. A baby may resemble a girl, or be raised as a girl, but is a genetic male who will usually virilise at puberty, reviewed by Sharon & Tracie O'Keefe

Lovegonwrong

The assumption that love will go wrong whenever the nature of the gender or gender expression of one or either partner is enough to possibly challenge the gender expectations either partner has of themselves and/or each other, by norrie mAy welby

Social & Support Report

Report from the Gender Centre's Social & Support Worker includes information about upcoming events at the Centre, by Nicole Moore

Talking Point: Kevin & Jennifer Revisited

The struggle of transgender people for legal recognition of their sex claims is not new. This struggle might be dated to the 1957 Scottish decision of Re: X which involved the refusal of transgender sex claims, by Andrew Sharpe

Health Report

The complications involved in receiving appropriate medical care if you are transgender and H.I.V. positive, by Joe Lunievicz

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