Australia - Eleanor Lister - gender rights activist missed

Submitted by kareng on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 21:09.

Australia - Eleanor Lister - gender variant rights activist will be
missed... [2008-04-24 Sydney Star Observer]


24/04/2008

TRANS ACTIVIST WILL BE MISSED

by Ani Lamont

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AU: CENTRELINK CUTS PAYMENTS

Submitted by woman network on Thu, 28/02/2008 - 21:29.

CENTRELINK CUTS PAYMENTS   by Harley Dennett

A Centrelink decision to reduce a pre-operative transsexual lesbian’s pension because she was in a relationship with another woman has been overturned by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Samantha Scafe lodged an appeal when Centrelink claimed she was in a “marriage-like relationship” with her partner Colleen Smith and gave her the partnered rate of disability support pension, less than the single rate. The pair did not deny being in a relationship.

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Australian transsexual sues policemen for 'revealing her past'

Submitted by woman network on Thu, 07/02/2008 - 12:07.

 

Australian transsexual sues policemen for 'revealing her past'

 

AFP - Wednesday, February 6 05:38 am

 

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AU: Transsexual fights for her lesbian rights

Submitted by woman network on Sun, 04/11/2007 - 08:48.

Transsexual fights for her lesbian rights

Sarah Price
November 4, 2007

A TRANSGENDER psychotherapist has taken a gay association to an equal opportunities tribunal, alleging she was discriminated against by being refused entry to a lesbian event.

Tracie O'Keefe, of Sydney, said she requested an invitation to a South Australian event organised by lesbian support group Sappho's Party.

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AU: Court of Confusion - SX News 10 October 2007

Submitted by kareng on Sun, 14/10/2007 - 16:16.

Letters to the Editor

SX News

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US: How did the T get in LGBT?

Submitted by woman network on Tue, 09/10/2007 - 16:52.

How did the T get in LGBT?

The 30-year fight for a federal gay civil rights law may fail because activists insist on including rights for transgendered people too. Has gay inclusiveness gone too far too fast?

By John Aravosis

 

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Australia: Australia's first legally married lesbians...

Submitted by kareng on Sat, 06/10/2007 - 23:26.

Australia's first legally married lesbians
report by Katrina Fox
 
 
Two lesbians became the first legal same-sex married couple in Australia this week when the Administrative Appeals

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AU: Abrams and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade [2007]

Submitted by woman network on Sun, 30/09/2007 - 15:32.

Abrams and Minister for Foreign Affairs and
Trade [2007] AATA 1816 (28 September
2007)
Last Updated: 28 September 2007

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

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AU: PASSPORT SNUB 'UNJUST'

Submitted by woman network on Sun, 23/09/2007 - 18:51.

PASSPORT SNUB 'UNJUST'
by Cara Davis
 
Fiona Power and Grace Abrams

The Federal Government has refused to issue a post-operative trans woman a female passport on the basis that she is married to a woman.

Grace Abrams last week appealed the decision by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

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NZ: 'What's the difference?'

Submitted by woman network on Thu, 13/09/2007 - 20:25.

'What's the difference?'

The significance of what is believed to be the first time a transsexual has sat as a member of a High Court bench is being downplayed by the Hokitika woman who has the honour.

 

"What's the difference?" Jacquie Grant said when she arrived at the High Court at Wellington yesterday.

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