News
Transgender People and Friends in the Media
A brief report on Health in Difference 7: more to follow.
a series of interviews on trans issues.
A good article from the Medical Observer- thanks to Mandy Bryan for her work.
Comment on the situation regarding documention for SGD people...and a wildcard.
Small steps are just as valuable
Arguably the most critical social reform for Victoria's SGD people?
What it means for trans* folk in Victoria
Sex and Gender Diverse people in prison
...good ideas can disappear into a bureaucratic black hole simply because we don't fit neatly into government organisational charts.
Knocking out exemptions and exceptions from Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act
The ongoing issue of mental health
Not a good government backflip
Moves to increase queer safety
The absurdity of heterosexist marriage
A great victory for 2 of our siblings interstate.
A win re the gender clinic...and the bonus is the fundies lose.
The need for Federal Equal Opportunity Law - and that 85% of all Australians support it.
2 steps forward after one step back 2-3 years ago.
A soft target for sensationalist mainstream media
A federal human Rights Charter?
A first for Australian Rules football as far as we know.
A story re alleged misdiagnosis
A critical issue for trans* and our GLB cousins.
Marking the anniversary of trans* liberation
HREOC consults with the community
Another happier life for a trans* young person, but "The Age" makes a meal of the issue.
HREOC launches an eqnuiry within 3 months of the change of Federal government.
Thanks to Melbourne Queer Film Festival for their support of trans* and diversity in general.
Most likely the most comprehensive research into trnas* people in Australia and New Zealand
Hopefully the last story of its kind?
Supportive response to website beating up on a trans* person
The start of more success to come
Crusader Hillis, long-time huge supporter of the trans community, writes brilliantly on the Hanover Ban.
Read more about the 4 Corners program on gender identity.
Read the BNews article about our lovely Lauren Christopher.
Read The Age's wonderful article about Michael Mardel.
The Transgender community is invited to participate in a memorial service to our late friend Dr Herbert Bower who passed away on 29 August.
The Gender Identity Support Group is holding a seminar about Gender Dysphoria in the beginning of August.
Read the article printed in The Age
Aya Kamikawa's election to public office is a further sign that Japanese society is slowly opening its mind, Shane Green reports from Tokyo. Read the report from the Sydney Morning Herald 03 May 2003.
A short excerpt of Hon. Justice Chisholm's findings in the case Kevin & Jennifer v Australian Attorney General, in which Justice Chisholm ordered that a man of transsexual background (post-operative f2m transsexual man) is a man before Australian law, and that the precedent set by the UK decision of Corbett v Corbett barring marriage of post-operative transsexual men & women, which does not represent current medical understandings does not represent Australian law.
This case is currently being appealed by the Attorney General, at considerable expense to the Australian taxpayer.
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