First published by the Gender Centre in 1993, Polare Magazine has developed a reputation of being a vital source of information, news, views, opinions and stories for transgender people and others within the sex and gender diverse communities.
Polare Magazine is published quarterly in Australia by The Gender Centre Inc. which is funded by the Department of Family & Community Services under the S.A.A.P. program and supported by the N.S.W. Health Department through the AIDS and Infectious Diseases Branch. Polare provides a forum for discussion and debate on gender issues. Unsolicited contributions are welcome, the editor reserves the right to edit such contributions without notification. Any submission which appears in Polare may be published on our internet site. Opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor, The Gender Centre Inc., the Department of Family & Community Services or the N.S.W. Department of Health.
December 1996
Elvis Herselvis Part One; Why Gender Issues? Why Now?; The Year in Perspective
February 1997
Elvis Herselvis Part Two, Transgender Liberation & Care, Medicine, the Facts
April 1997
What is Gender; Wendy Carlos Revisited; Transsexual Acceptance
June 1997
What Public Opinion Can Do; Almost Heaven, My Vagina; What are Dads Made Of?
December 1993
A Day at the Doctor; American Indian Gender-Crossers; So What is Seahorse?
August 1997
Fitness & Nutrition; Some Thoughts on Transition; Transitioning on the Job
October 1997
Trans Equity; Transgender Folk Are Creative Folk; Achieving Personal Success
December 1997
A Fabulous Child's Story; Childhood and Gender Identity Development Repressive Abuse
February 1998
Mardi Gras Memories; Trapped in the Body of a Man; Perspectives on Transition
April 1998
A Quality of Life Issue; Rich Man, Poor Man, Transsexual Woman, Spiritual Transgendering
June 1998
The Seahorse Society; Coming-Out Whole; The Hermaphrodite Soul
August 1998
Gender Mirrors; Boys Will Be Girls; Access Plus, Spanning Identities
October 1998
Transgender Debate, Against Exclusion; Why We Lie; Made in Thailand; Identity
December 1998
Positive Policing; A Farewell to Passing; Transmen
February 1999
Transgender Issues & Depression; Using Your Mind to Bring About Body Changes
March 1994
The History of Condoms; Like a lady in Polynesia; Living A Dream
April 1999
A Letter To My Sister; Loneliness of Being Happy; Tell Them I'm a Boy
June 1999
Manhood, The Big Gig; Health Report, Thrush; My Story
August 1999
Trans People and H.I.V.; Telling the Truth
October 1999
Urethral Complications in Phalloplasty; Transitioning is Not Therapy
