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[dreamer_easy]

A new Australian law leaves transitioning transgender women and men stuck with their birth sex on their passport, making them vulnerable to suspicion and harassment when they travel overseas, as well as being just plain humiliating. It's a bit of bureaucratic nonsense which serves no purpose other than to add hassles and misery to peoples' lives.

Comments

[the-cockfighter.livejournal.com]

Street theatre?

I'm impressed how a film like An Inconvenient Truth really changed things in this country. I can't imagine more than 5% of the community saw the film, but it really took off. I think it has to be done through film and tv, but it also needs to be peppered through newsprint and radio.

I don't think on this particular issue, one could do this, I don't think there's an interest, but if one could generate a concern in the community for gender-sexuality based issues then that's how progress can be made. And I'll name some recent ones flagged in the media - a rise in violence in and around Oxford St, same-sex defacto legislation to be brought before the Cabinet now that Turball has flagged it for his electorate. Darren Hayes interview on Sunday program, Anthony Callea's outing, the popularity of Priscilla, Ray Martin's report on 60 Minutes last Sunday (transcript can be read here (http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=286822)).

The important thing in this process is not to tell how other people how they should behave or what to believe in. The trick with the Australian public is for them to know that its perfectly normal to think that is okay to allow same-sex people and trangender people to be who they are.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Bring out that Aussie laissez faire attitude, yes.

(I haven't read the paper for so long, I've got next to no idea what's been going on in any of the areas I used to monitor, so I appreciate the update.)