Polare 54

Issued October 2003

(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.)

Manager's Report

This report was part of the Annual Report 2002-03 of the Gender Centre and is being reprinted for general information and the benefit of Centre members who were unable to attend the A.G.M., by Elizabeth Riley

Editorial

Yet another period of confusion, disorientation and disorganization for your beloved editor, by Katherine Cummings

The Bottom Line or Fools and Others I have Met

Whether we're straight, bent, queer, trannie or whatever, we all live in a social world of human relations and activities. We all interact with others and so our attitude is going to affect those interactions and our quality of life, by Laura Anne Seabrook

Louise

I remember that summer. The last summer I spent with Louise. The days, hot and fierce, reeling, like a slap in the face; gasping, like the wind knocked out of you., by Paula Kaye

Tales of Tiresias

In October 1983 the doors opened at 75 Morgan St. Petersham, and its twelve and spaces were filled immediately with young trannies traumatised by being cast out of their parental homes or drifting around the Cross searching for identity roots, by Roberta Perkins

Social & Support Report

A review of the Gender Centre's Ball, hell this year at the Moulin Rouge in Kings Cross, by Grace Abrams

Health Report: Breast Examination and Other Health Concerns for the Transgendered

Breast information for the transgender community discussing the issue of breast care from two points of view, for the F.T.M. on androgen therapy and may or may not have a mastectomy, and the M.T.F. who is on a an estrogen regimen and hopes to increase breast size, Ingersoll Gender Centre

What are you? Male, Female ... or "Neither of the Above"?

Attempts to deny marriage to all but culturally defined males and females by legislating science will eventually fail because a two-category system can never encompass the variety of human gender, by Pamela Stephenson

Book Review: Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity

Finding the Real Me by its unstructured nature reflect the nature of diversity, so that stories of male-to-female, female-to-male, and androgyny are interspersed with stories of older and younger people, complete and incomplete transitions, Reviewed by Niko Leka

The H.B.I.G.D.A. XVII Biennial Symposium

Gender Centre Counsellor Elizabeth Anne Riley gives an account of this Biennial Symposium held in Belgium at which she presented a paper titled, Counselling Clients with Gender Dysphoria: An Ethical Approach, by Elizabeth Anne Riley

A Class Act, On and Off the Field

Carolyn Layt, an ex-student at Riverview College returns for the twenty-year reunion and scores a try in the game of rugby played as part of the reunion celebrations, by Andrew Fitzsimmons (Sydney Morning Herald) and Caroline Layt

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