GC NEWS

Tuesday, 03 March 2020

• Mardi Gras 2020: Human Rights Commissioner Marches with Gender Centre Families

• Mardi Gras 2020 with the AHRC Commissioner Edward Santow and Children's Commissioner Megan Mitchell

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Sunday, 02 February 2020

• Binary and Non-Binary Trans: if you think there’s such a big difference, perhaps think again.

• By Eloise Brook

  One of the most confusing and even confounding issues for Australia’s transgender and gender diverse community is the way that gender identity as a monolithic structure continues to change. The TGD community, whether it likes it or not is caught in a watershed moment; a heated and passionate internal argument about how we define or don’t define what gender means for the community. As divisive as it can be a little more compassionate.

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Sunday, 02 February 2020

• Groups at the GC Are Back for 2020

• New Dates and Times for Gender Centre Groups...

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Sunday, 17 November 2019

• Groups At the Gender Centre: Over 40s

• 27th November, 2019

  Our over 40s social group meets on the Last Wednesday from 1:30-3:30pm. Hope to see you there!

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Sunday, 17 November 2019

• Transgender Day of remembrance: 20 years has anything changed?

• Next Wednesday the Gender Centre will be memorialising the 20th Transgender Day of Remembrance in Harmony Park, Surry Hills. We’ve been hosting this event since it first began in 1999. Over the years the TGD community has changed and grown, but somethings have remained the same Eloise Brook explains.

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Sunday, 17 November 2019

• The Australian media's portrayal of trans people is a betrayal of their human rights | Victor Madrigal-Borloz

Thursday, 19 September 2019

• Christian activists are spreading misinformation to influence religious anti-discrimination outcomes

• By Eloise Brook

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Wednesday, 18 September 2019

• Meet the Staff at the Gender Centre - Ben

• My name is Ben and I’m a fourth year Social Work student studying at Western Sydney University. I’ve been undertaking my field education with the Gender Centre since June...

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Sunday, 18 August 2019

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  ‘The Australian’ launches new attack on transgender children

Thursday, 01 August 2019

• Don’t believe what you hear about Jessica Yanniv, the Right has a wax to grind

• There’s a few problems with the media dumpster fire around Jessica Yanniv that most people seem to being missing. First and foremost it’s this: yet again the transgender and gender diverse community is being thrown under the bus by its supposed allies. And yes, we’ve been here a few times before.

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Thursday, 31 January 2019

• STAY SAFE DURING Mardi Gras with some useful tips

• It's that time of year again, when Sydney is alive with celebration of all things LGBTQIA+. But while this is our time to shine, it's also when TGD folk can experience unwanted attention and even violence.
  
  So here's a few tips for staying safe while having a fab time.
  
  for extra information check out the FairPlay website. 

  
  Robert Knapman 
  Case Worker

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