Polare 23

Issued February 1998

(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.)

Coordinator's Report

Report from the Gender Centre's Coordinator including training to the Health Care Complaints Commission and Employment News, by Elizabeth Riley

Trapped In The Body Of A Man

Transsexuals often claim they were born the wrong gender. Microscopic studies of a key region of the brain suggest they may be right, by Christine Gorman

On Gender & Sexual Orientation

Since Julie has acknowledged her bisexuality, she has done a considerable amount of soul searching and self analysis, especially in regards to how gender relates to sexual orientation, by Julie Waters

Mardi Gras Memories

For the second time in a few years, I found myself at the very front of the Mardi Gras Parade, by Jill Hooley

Stress & The Transgendered Community

Paper presented at the first National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference, Health in Difference, in Sydney in 1996, by Lana Barlow

Transmen

What you see is not what you get, by Phil Kirk

Understanding How The Gender Centre Works

From Tiresias' House to the Gender Centre Inc, an explanation of how the Gender Centre operates including the Management Committee, Staff and the Trany Community

My Story

Beside myself with confusion and despair, my Counselor suggested that I live one life and stop having a war between my female and male, Lisa

Perspectives On Transition

Most transsexuals have a strong wish to live their whole life without ever being questioned in a very normal lifestyle in their chosen gender, by Eila

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