Polare 8

Issued August 1995

(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.)

P.M.'s Piece

Report from the Gender Centre's Project Manager, by Bill Robertson.

Evaluation Report

Feedback from the recent Polare Evaluation, The Gender Centre

Call Me Average

Jasper explains how he is now living life more as a man and less as a transsexual, by Jasper

Transgender Community in Action

Transgender Liberation and Care and the thoughts of its co-founder, by Jonathon Pare

Phalloplasty

Mick explains how his first surgery failed and that phallus was removed and why he intends to go ahead with a second attempt at the same surgery, Interview with Mick

Inside Myself

For the first time in his life, Sean Dean feels balanced and content, by Sean Dean

Gender

Gender and the need to identify in a way that I am comfortable, and if that means bending my birth gender then that is where I am headed, Author's Name Withheld

Boy-Girl That Wasn't

Studied like a prized anthropological specimen in a zoo and quite unlike a medical patient, by David Hemmings

Sex Work Substances

The effects of different drugs on our bodies and our sexual function and tolerance or intolerance to pain, by Bill Robertson

Naturalisation Certificate

It is now possible for any post-operative transsexual with a Naturalisation Certificate in his or her former name to obtain a corrected certificate, by Kate Cummings

Famous Trannies in Early Modern Times

Famous Trannies in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries including Eleno de Cespedes, Abbe de Choisy, by Roberta Perkins

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