From Indigenous culture to colonial times to modern celebrities, there's plenty to learn from and to celebrate in the long history of trans and gender diverse people.
A 1937 Western Australian medical journal article is "one of the first definitive cases of someone actually being classified that way in Australia".Before accessing surgery, they were put through a "real life test", which entailed living for two years, 24-7, in their affirmed gender, "which was not easy", Professor Riseman says.
"I did my own thing during a period when people were not doing their own thing," Jorgensen said in 1981 interview on US talk show Hour Magazine.Jorgensen, pictured here in 1953, became famous around the world. On ABC's Four Corners program in 1974, Carlotta spoke openly about being transgender and about having gender affirming surgery.Time to show the public 'we're not weird'
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