Polare 58

Issued July 2004

(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

Report from the Gender Centre's includes information about the recent spate of transgender topics on television, by Elizabeth Riley

Editorial

In this issue we have an extremely interesting talking point from Zhan as he looks at racial stereotyping and transgender. The Health Report deals with a topic very often encountered in our community ... depression, by Katherine Cummings

I am Not a God

Gail writes of her hair transplant experience with Dr. Pichet in Bangkok, Thailand, by Gail Bennett

Emerging Pangendered

I am pangendered. I am biologically male and happy to be and to live my male-gendered life. However, I am also, and no less, a woman by gender, by Jenny Lovelace

A Response from the Australian Democrats

As the Democrats' spokesperson for Sexuality and Gender Issues, Brian Greig states categorically that the Australian Democrats endorse support for transgender people, by Brian Greig

Racial Stereotyping and Transgender

I've been thinking a lot about how racial stereotyping and ideas about race, colour our ideas about gender, transitioning and becoming, by Zhan

Social & Support Report

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

Only a Cross-Dresser

Because cross-dressing is the more socially-despised identity, the more despised and oppressed group, the more conservative their rhetoric and politics. When groups are disempowered they have no choice but to take an assimilationist conservative stance, by Riki Anne Wilchins

Health Report: Depression & Transgender

Depression is the leading mental health issue faced by transgender persons but it should be clearly understood that it does not mean that having a transgender identity is pathological, mentally disordered or medically diseased, by Gianna E. Israel

Book Review: The Gender Frontier

The Gender Frontier, a book presenting images concerning activism associated with the struggle for transgender rights, and there are significant essays by some of America's leading transgender activists, reviewed by Katherine Cummings

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