Polare 61

Issued January 2005

(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

The Gender Centre supports and respects the right of all people in the diverse communities to self-define according to their own terminology but rejects any notion that one term, and the individuals who embrace it, have a claim to moral superiority over any other., by Elizabeth Riley

Editorial

This issue, as I foreshadowed in our last, is dedicated to Lee Anderson Brown, who died of cancer in October, 2004. Lee was an admirable man, born intersexed, and with ambiguous genitalia, with all the uncertainty involved in those conditions, by Katherine Cummings

Book Reviews

Willow Arune reviews two books, Fascinating Who ... Fascinating Aida by Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Nica Burns, and Fixed For Life; The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally by Irene Priess.

Fractured Masks: Voices from the Shards of Language

An exploration of how the experiences of intersexuals have been erased in the modern conceptual frameworks which are used to position them in this society today. In other words, how the voices of intersexuals have been silenced in theoretical discourses of gender and sexuality, by Lee Anderson Brown

Lee Brown: A Tribute

A tribute for Lee, who many of you know through his work in academia and with the Transgender Liberation Coalition, the Gender Centre, Health In Difference Conferences, and with the Intersex Network of New South Wales, by Sharon L. Brown

To Flatter your Figure be Fitter not Fatter

With obesity becoming a national epidemic, let's talk about weight loss. After all, it will soon be Mardi Gras season, which always seems a great excuse to wear that fabulous frock you've been eyeing off, by James Rainer

The Amazing Disappearing Chromosome

A new version of the human male is a distinct possibility, given the genetic erosion of the "junk" sex-determining chromosome that makes men male, reprinted from the A.N.U. Reporter, Winter 2004

Australia's International Sex, Gender and Sexuality Clinic Gets Underway

I have been helping sex and gender diverse people for around thirty years now. I actually started my encounter with therapy in co-counselling at college thirty-five years ago. In those days there were no other visible transsexuals around where I lived so all my support came from the gay community, many of whom have remained lifelong friends., Dr. Tracie O'Keefe

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