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[melodica softly plays]

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-[Dad] Hello, Georgie.
-Hi.

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[Dad] How did you feel
when you were younger,

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when people would say,
"What a beautiful boy," or… you know?

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I got a bit frustrated, um, because…

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I… I wanted them
to understand that I'm a girl.

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I'm a girl.

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Not… maybe not in the outside,
but in the inside, I feel like a girl.

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[melodica playing continues]

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Do you wanna wear different trackie dacks?

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That's my fault.

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They're longer on me
than they are on you. [laughs]

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[Georgie] Yeah.

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Yeah, wear your nice blue ones.

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-I'll bring these ones instead. Yeah.
-Yeah.

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-[birds chirping]
-[suitcase wheels rolling]

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[voices of children playing]

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[screams joyfully]

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It's very surreal for me to think
that for most of today, I'll be asleep.

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[Mum] Yeah.

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[Georgie] And I keep thinking
of the moments that have led me here.

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[Mum] Yeah.

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[soft piano melody plays]

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[Mum] Pop that next to your bed.

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Um…

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I'll pop that in there,
just in case you need it.

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Thanks.

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[sighs heavily]

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-[laughs]
-Whoa!

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Today is your first day of school.

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Can we see you in your uniform, please?

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Uh, yeah. Uh, Valks…

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[Georgie] Yeah, and mine too.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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The most recent swimming carnival
at Valkstone

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was very…

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very frustrating.

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Um…

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I went into the boy's cubicles,

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or toilets, to get, um, changed into…

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changed, um,

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when all the boys started laughing at me.

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And then I hid in the cubicle.

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And then…

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my mum thought
that maybe I'll get dressed with her

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but not in any of the toilets.

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We'll get dressed behind the toilets,

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where no one could find us.

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Yeah.

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[soft piano music plays]

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[Georgie chuckles]

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So I would like to introduce to you
the college captains of 2018,

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D'Art and Georgie.

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[crowd cheers and applauds]

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[crowd whistles]

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[monitor beeping]

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[Harry moans]

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[Harry talks indistinctly]

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[Dad] How do you feel
about having a sister and not a brother?

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Well, it is quite fun
because if we were younger,

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we can be playing superheroes
or something.

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-[Georgie cheers]
-A girl superhero and a boy superhero.

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Now we usually play spies,

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and there's a woman agent
and a man agent.

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So it's more fun having a girl around
instead of just two boys.

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[Dad] How do you find them at school?

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Does everyone at school
think of her as a girl?

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Yeah.

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I crossed my heart
that I wouldn't tell anyone.

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[Beck] And now one, just the twins.

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[shutter clicking]

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-How are you feeling, love?
-I'm good.

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[Greg grunting]

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[all laughing]

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[Beck] Be careful.

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Who's taking the coffee machine
when Dad moves out?

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I get all the tea stuff,
and he gets all the coffee stuff.

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[metal clanks]

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-The microwave?
-[Beck] Staying here.

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The Wi-Fi?

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[Beck] I don't know
'cause we might go with another company.

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[Georgie] Mmm.

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The phone?

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Stays here.

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And it might… have a little bit
of a different vibe here,

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but we're good at creating homes, Georgie.

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[monitor beeping]

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[Greg] Love you so much, darling.

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We'll all be here waiting for you
when you come out.

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Yep.

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[Beck] Time to go, my love.

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Can I come a little way with her?

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-Love you.
-[nurse] Yes.

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-See ya. Have fun.
-[Georgie] Love you.

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[nurse] Come inside.
It gets cold in there.

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[Georgie chuckles]

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[monitor beeping]

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[nurse] I'm just gonna connect
a few of these.

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It just monitors your heart
throughout the procedure.

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And we're coming in today
for gender affirmation surgery?

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Everyone in agreeance?

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-[all] Yeah.
-[nurse] Thank you.

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I'm just gonna give you a little oxygen
before you're going off to sleep.

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Okay.

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[nurse] So just take
some nice, big deep breaths for me there.

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[breathing deeply]

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[children's voices echoing]

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[keeps breathing deeply]

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[birds chirping]

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[presenter] And the winner
of the Young People's Human Rights Medal

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for 2017 is Georgie Stone.

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[crowd cheering]

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It is an honor
to be receiving this award today.

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A few months ago,

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I was talking to a group of trans kids
between the ages of 8 and 12,

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and I was shocked to learn
that every single one of them was,

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at that time, being bullied at school.

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So even though we have achieved a lot,
we still need to make sure

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that we are protecting
and looking after trans kids in Australia.

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[crowd applauding, cheering]

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[breathing heavily]

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[Greg] How do you feel
about the medical treatment

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that you want to have?

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I feel good about that.

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[Greg] Why?

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Well, because then…
then I won't grow into a boy. I'll…

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I'll be myself.

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[monitor beeping]

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Um…

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[interviewer] Michelle. Okay, great.

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So, Michelle, can you say your name for me

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and your, um, position?

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My name is
Associate Professor Michelle Telfer,

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and I'm the head
of Department of Adolescent Medicine

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and director of the Gender Service
at the Royal Children's Hospital.

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For every young person
who comes to see us,

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there's a very thorough assessment
that takes place

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before a big decision
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is… is decided upon.

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But even with this thorough process,

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for many, many years in Australia,
young people had to go to court

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to access the treatment they needed.

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When Georgie was 13,

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she and her family decided
to challenge that.

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To have a complete stranger
having to make a decision about my body

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was really distressing,
and I felt really powerless.

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So we appealed to change
both Stage 1 and Stage 2 treatments

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so, um, trans kids and their families
wouldn't have to go to court.

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And we won,
but it was only a partial victory.

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So they, uh… they changed
the law surrounding Stage 1,

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so then, um, families didn't have to go
to court for Stage 1 treatment,

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but the law still stood for Stage 2.

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So what it meant for me
was that I did have to go back to court,

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and that was really scary.

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[monitor beeping]

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I can't get, um, female hormones
without the permission of court.

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They give the order,
and it's not in the power of the doctors,

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the parents, or me.

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I don't have, legally,
the right to make that decision.

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I need to…

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um, they needed to determine
whether I was Gillick competent,

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which means I know
what the effects will be.

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I need the estrogen tablets.
I need to go through female puberty.

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I get boobs.
[laughs] I get, um, curves, you know,

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things that girls have, and I need it.

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I need it to be myself,

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and if I don't get it,
I'm not gonna be happy.

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I'm not gonna be myself.

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[soft rhythmic music plays]

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I've got a pimple…

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which is… I'm actually happy about,

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sort of.

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It means that the tablets are working,
and I'm…

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Uh, well, it's working. [laughs] Yay.

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[soft rhythmic music continues]

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Firstly, kinda like to say
thank you so much for having us. Um…

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So thankful that I'm able to speak today,
and hopefully we can do some good.

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Okay, so, my name is Georgie Stone.
I'm 15 years old.

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Last year, we had to apply
to the Family Court of Australia

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to obtain Stage 2 treatment,
which is cross-sex hormones.

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For the last five years,

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court has played a big part
in my family's life.

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At times, it overshadowed everything else.

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I want to make sure this doesn't play
the same part in anyone else's life.

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The court process is slow,
biology is fast.

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The lives of trans kids
are challenging at every turn.

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As parents, we walk ahead of our child,
almost like a landmine detector,

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sweeping the terrain before us,
paving a safe pathway for them.

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Most parents exhaust themselves
creating a safe place at school,

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educating family and friends,

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often being accused of causing it
in the first place or of child abuse.

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Dealing with their own feelings
of being overwhelmed and isolated,

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finding appropriate medical support,
family breakdown, kids harming themselves.

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The pressure is enormous and relentless.

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To add court to this already
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is unnecessary and cruel.

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Legislation through Parliament
is our last hope,

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so please help us.

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[applause echoing]

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[breathing deeply]

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[monitor beeps echoing]

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[Greg] How did you feel
when you went to see Dr. Paul?

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Yeah.

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After Dr. Paul,
I felt much happier, much more safe.

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[Greg] You didn't feel safe before that?

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Well, no,

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'cause not… not that many people
understood about me.

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[monitor beeping]

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[Dr. Telfer] Are you happy to talk about
the estrogen today and how that's going?

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Last time I saw you,
we increased the dose.

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Yeah, two milligrams.

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-[Dr. Telfer] Yeah, how's that going?
-It's been good.

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I mean, I do notice

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I get a bit more annoyed
at my parents than before.

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-Can you tell?
-[Beck] No.

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And even if you were, I don't think
I'd take a blind bit of notice.

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-Oh, good.
-[Beck] So--

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Okay, so next time,
you might get a little bit of sassiness.

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Will… will you mind? Okay, that's fine.

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[Beck] All I notice is that you are
feeling good about yourself,

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and that because
you're feeling good about yourself,

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your focus is very positive
on other things

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and that you're determined
to make the best life for yourself.

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[ethereal music plays]

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A lot of our work has revolved
around law reform for trans kids,

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'cause they have to apply
to the Family Court of Australia

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-Right.
-[Georgie] …to access treatment.

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Yeah. Great.

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You've got a way to go
with trans awareness, do you think?

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[Georgie] This isn't really a new issue,
but in the public eye, it is.

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So there is a long way to go
making sure we battle the social stigma,

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um, which is ingrained in our society.

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[crowd cheering]

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[upbeat music plays]

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[crowd cheering]

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Hey, so, update.

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I'm gonna talk a little bit about boys.

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Ugh.

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Okay, so I've had a crush on this guy
for about ten months,

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big crush, um,

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and turns out
he had a crush on my best friend.

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Ugh.

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[groaning]

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[Dr. Telfer]
Uh, it's nearly three years, isn't it?

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Having estrogen
before you're even looking at having

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any of those sort
of major surgical procedures.

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I can… I can do it.

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My teachers all support me,
and why shouldn't I do it?

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I've waited so long.

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[Dr. Telfer] Yeah.

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-And at 18, you're an adult.
-[Georgie] Yeah.

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You can make those decisions,
and clearly you've got the ability

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to… to make
a really good, informed decision,

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and it's totally up to you.

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[Georgie] So, yeah.

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[breathing heavily]

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[monitor beeping]

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[Georgie] Going into the clinic today,

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I started thinking,
"Okay, this is gonna happen."

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-This is happening.
-[Beck] Yeah, I know. I know.

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Yeah.

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Really, the meaning of it is all… you.

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[Georgie] Yeah.

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[Beck] It's nobody else.

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Yeah.

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I have my feelings about it
because I want you to be…

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who you want to be,
and I want you to be safe.

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[Georgie] Mmm.

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[Beck] But…

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it's… it's just you.

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It's just for you.

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[Georgie] Mmm.

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I don't want it to change things though.

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[pensive music plays]

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[tearfully] I don't want to be trans.

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But it is who I am, so I can't really…

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I try not to think about,
"Oh, I wish I wasn't trans."

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I am trans, and I have to live with it.

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And I will have to live
with it all my life.

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I don't want this operation
to change anything

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'cause I'm really happy.

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[sniffles]

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And, yeah,
I don't have the body that I want,

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but I'm still female.

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And I just don't want
this operation to change who I am.

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[sniffles]

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Obviously, I want it
to change my body, but I don't want it…

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[swallows]

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I don't want it
to change people's perceptions of me.

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I don't want it to change
how I live my life and…

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[sniffles] I still want to be Georgie.

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[monitor beeping]

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[melodica softly plays]

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[children's voices echoing]

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[melodica playing continues]

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[Greg] Sweetie.

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Hey.

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[monitor beeping]

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[Beck] You've had a lovely sleep.

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-[weakly] I'm tired.
-[Beck] Mmm.

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[Greg] You just keep sleeping
as long as you like.

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[Beck] Okay. And is Justice Thackray

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going to deliver that from court

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or in chambers or…

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[indistinct speaking over phone]

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The judgment is gonna be handed down
tomorrow at midday.

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-Wow.
-[Beck] Mmm…

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It could all be over tomorrow.

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That's crazy. It's like all that work,

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everything is leading up to tomorrow.

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[Beck] That would mean
a whole bunch of our friends

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wouldn't have to go through it.

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The kids wouldn't have to go through it.

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[Georgie] My family and I were able
to reform Stage 1,

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so we didn't have to go to court,

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but you still have to for Stage 2.

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Stage 2 treatment is cross-sex hormones.

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That's beginning the puberty
that you want to undertake.

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And this treatment for trans kids
is vital for our mental health,

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for our physical health.

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We really need this treatment.

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My mum and I and lots of people

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have been rallying support for this cause
to get this process out of the courts.

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And hopefully, all that work has paid off.

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-We'll see.
-[reporter] We'll see.

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[hopeful music plays]

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[monitor beeping]

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[Dr. Telfer] We won!

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[crowd applauding and cheering]

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[laughing]

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[Beck] Oh my God.

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-[Dr. Telfer] Congratulations.
-[crying softly]

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Congratulations.

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[sobs]

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[friend] The world's changing, hey?

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Oh, darling girl.

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[whispers] We won.

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Can't believe it. [sobs]

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-[cork pops]
-Oh jeez!

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[crowd cheering]

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And to all of you
for looking after our kids,

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thank you, thank you.

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[crowd applauding]

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For the next ten, twenty, thirty years,

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we will see
young people benefit from this,

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and… I suspect that

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those young people won't understand
what you've been through

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and won't understand
the significance of that freedom

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that they have to just access
the treatment they need,

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but we will always remember

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that, Georgie, it was you

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that fought this first.

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[tearfully] Thank you.

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-[woman 1] Cheers.
-[woman 2] Cheers.

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[Georgie] Over this past week,

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I… I was scared.

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-[Beck] Mmm.
-How I couldn't move my legs.

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[Beck] Mmm.

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Um, couldn't get out of the bed,
feeling trapped in there,

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feeling sick a lot of the time.

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It was just there were
so many things happening to my body.

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All because of this operation
that I wanted.

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Um, I started
a little bit to resent… resent it,

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or scared of resenting it,

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which is probably the truth.

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I was scared
of resenting this thing that I wanted,

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but… what made me so happy this morning,

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when… when my dressing came off

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and I saw my vagina for the first time,

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is that when I saw it, I didn't hate it.

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00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:26,840
Um, I loved it.
And I said, "That's my vagina."

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And I really loved it.

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[sniffles]

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Uh, swollen, stitches, all of it.

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00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:39,102
You know.

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It didn't matter.

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-[Beck] Mmm.
-I still loved it.

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[door shuts]

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I might try acting,
so I'm doing drama classes.

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I would love to play
a trans person in a film about

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all trans topics and make it realistic.

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[writer] Welcome.

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00:25:29,236 --> 00:25:31,071
[Georgie] Thank you very much.

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00:25:31,154 --> 00:25:33,323
We're really, really excited
to tell the story,

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and, uh, this is, um,
the Neighbours story team.

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00:25:36,326 --> 00:25:38,954
So we just wanted
to kind of get your guidance

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to what is appropriate
and what isn't appropriate.

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00:25:41,164 --> 00:25:42,332
Yeah.

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00:25:42,415 --> 00:25:44,834
So, "transgender," is that an okay term?

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-[Georgie] Transgender is the term.
-Is the correct…

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[Georgie] Or trans.

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00:25:49,005 --> 00:25:51,007
In terms of pronouns, she, her.

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00:25:51,091 --> 00:25:52,592
-[writer] Yeah.
-Very simple.

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00:25:52,676 --> 00:25:56,179
Obviously, when you meet new people,
and they just know you as Georgie…

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00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:57,097
[Georgie] Yeah.

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00:25:57,180 --> 00:25:59,224
…when they eventually
or if they eventually learn

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00:25:59,307 --> 00:26:00,892
-that you're transgender…
-Yeah.

402
00:26:00,976 --> 00:26:03,520
…do they change at all
in how they interact with you?

403
00:26:03,603 --> 00:26:07,899
Well, I… I do… I do think
there are some assumptions

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00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:12,904
when meeting new people completely
about what my experience has been.

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00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:15,490
A big one that a lot of people have is,

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"Oh, so you were born a boy,
but you want to be a girl."

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00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,582
And how I see my experience is

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that I have always been female,

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00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:29,421
even… even when I was, you know,
two and a half, and I had short hair,

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00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:32,382
and people said "he," used male pronouns.

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00:26:32,465 --> 00:26:37,637
Um, I still see myself then as female,
but I was assigned male at birth.

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00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:41,558
Based on that experience
that you're describing,

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00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:44,144
the character would have always known.

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00:26:44,227 --> 00:26:47,022
Yeah. I've… I've always known who I am.

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00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:48,523
I've always been a girl.

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00:26:49,524 --> 00:26:51,526
[wistful music plays]

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00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:04,247
Why would he do that? I just wonder
if there's another beat in here.

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00:27:10,503 --> 00:27:11,713
[crew member] Do you like that?

419
00:27:14,257 --> 00:27:15,091
Stand by.

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00:27:21,514 --> 00:27:22,515
[laughs]

421
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:23,933
[talks indistinctly]

422
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:27,354
Ugh.

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00:27:27,437 --> 00:27:29,689
[crowd cheering]

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00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:31,191
-Thank you.
-[crew member] Mark cue.

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00:27:31,274 --> 00:27:32,484
[clapboard clacks]

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00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,154
[sniffles]

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00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:40,909
[crew member] And set.

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00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:42,369
Cameras are set.

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00:27:42,452 --> 00:27:44,079
And… action!

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00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:45,121
[Georgie exhales]

431
00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,516
[wistful melody plays]

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00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:12,333
[Georgie] Forever.

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00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:15,920
[kisses] For big ever.