Eleanor Watson, Author at Star Observer /author/eleanor-watson Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:16:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Eleanor Watson, Author at Star Observer /author/eleanor-watson 32 32 Trans Healthcare Is Essential During A Pandemic /features/trans-healthcare-is-essential-during-a-pandemic/198575 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 05:30:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=198575 With retail and hospitality closed, Melbourne was been stripped down to operating with only essential services.聽However, despite healthcare being an especially essential service during the biggest global pandemic of modern ...

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]]> Emily Ratajkowski Vows To Raise Child Gender Neutral /news/emily-ratajkowski-vows-to-raise-child-gender-neutral/198372 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:30:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=198372 Actor turned model Emily Ratajkowski announced in an interview with Vogue Magazine last month that she and her Producer husband Sebastian Bear-McCloud would be raising their unborn child with 鈥渁s ...

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]]> A Barrier Removed For Trans Victorians To Alter Sex Recorded On Birth Certificates /news/a-barrier-removed-for-trans-victorians-to-alter-sex-recorded-on-birth-certificates/194950 /news/a-barrier-removed-for-trans-victorians-to-alter-sex-recorded-on-birth-certificates/194950#comments Sun, 03 May 2020 10:43:15 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=194950 Last week marked a new page for transgender Victorian鈥檚 in our fight for legal equality. From May 1,聽 2020, trans and gender diverse Victorian鈥檚 can now alter the sex recorded ...

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]]> /news/a-barrier-removed-for-trans-victorians-to-alter-sex-recorded-on-birth-certificates/194950/feed 3 New ABC kids drama about a transgender schoolgirl /artsentertainment/screen/new-abc-series-explores-a-transgender-girls-first-year-of-high-school/193848 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:39:15 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=193848 Premiering March 30 on ABC Me, First Day, is a new children鈥檚 drama series about a transgender girl navigating her first year of high school. Starring transgender activist and actor, ...

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]]> Services for transgender Victorians remain at breaking point /news/national-news/victoria-news/services-for-transgender-victorians-remain-at-breaking-point/189993 /news/national-news/victoria-news/services-for-transgender-victorians-remain-at-breaking-point/189993#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:04:40 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=189993 The Victorian parliament passed much needed reforms to birth certificate legislation in August, but the fight doesn鈥檛 stop there. What鈥檚 next for trans advocacy? Penny, a Melbourne trans women, tells ...

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]]> /news/national-news/victoria-news/services-for-transgender-victorians-remain-at-breaking-point/189993/feed 1 No end in sight in fight for trans acceptance: Eleanor Watson /opinion/no-end-in-sight-in-fight-for-trans-acceptance/188050 /opinion/no-end-in-sight-in-fight-for-trans-acceptance/188050#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:47:49 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=188050 In the lead up to Victoria passing birth certificate reform last month, I attended a number of rallies with other members of the trans and gender diverse community. We rallied ...

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]]> /opinion/no-end-in-sight-in-fight-for-trans-acceptance/188050/feed 2 Anti-trans event picketed at University of Melbourne /news/anti-trans-event-picketed-at-university-of-melbourne/185333 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:31:23 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=185333 Last Thursday, around a hundred protestors surrounded the Sydney Myer Asia Centre at the University of Melbourne鈥檚 Parkville campus in a show of solidarity with the transgender and gender diverse ...

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