Polare 59

Issued September 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 Coordinator includes news on Mission Australia's bigoted actions in seeking to discriminate against pre-operative transsexual women, by Elizabeth Riley

Even in Death: Retaining Transgender Identity

Margaret writes about the struggles she experienced with funeral directors as the daughter of a transgender father, upon his death, by Margaret Cunningham

Book Review: All She Wanted

All She Wanted is the first true crime novel I've read where the writing contains as many paradoxes as the subject matter itself. Aphrodite Jones is a writer of the true-crime genre, reviewed by Kevin Heyne

Social & Support Report

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

On Being a Girl

I am a biological male who desperately wants to be a girl some of the time because I enjoy the kind of gender wholeness that I personally have, by Jenny Lovelace

The Marriage Amendment Act and Transsexuals

The bad news is that same-sex partners will not be allowed to get married in Australia, or have their overseas marriages recognised here. The good news is that transsexuals can change sex, and for the purpose of marriage, by norrie mAy welby

What's in a Name?

As I see things, labels and identities are primarily for the outside world; mainstream society. But what about the names and identities for the inner world? Identities, names, terms, labels like transsexual and transgender, by Bugsy Dawn

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