A Paper to be Presented Before the Ethics Committee of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association: Galveston, Texas, October 2001 by Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH NB Due to the war in Afghanistan, Dr O’Keefe was unable to attend the above conference. The medicalisation of sex and gender variances under descriptions of pathology and dysphoria… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH on behalf of Sex and Gender Education (SAGE) Australia presented at the Amnesty International Global Human Rights Conference (part of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games conference programme) 31 October 2002. Sex and gender diverse people are those who do not fit into the category of the average stereotypical male or… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH presented at the Health in Difference Conference (part of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games conference programme) 2 November 2002. Sex and gender diverse people include a series of identities of people who are transsexual, transgender, intersexed, androgynous or who choose to be absent of sex and gender identity. Some of… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in Transgender Tapestry, Spring 2003, Issue 101 I remember the famous English woman of transsexual origin April Ashley saying to me: “I just don’t understanding it, darling. All those professionals are just poking their noses in your business. In my day you just took hormones, had an operation, and… Read More

Paper and video presentation given at the Eighth International Gender Dysphoria Conference, August 2004, Hulme Hall, Manchester University, England. Organised by Gendys Network. At the beginning of a paper like this it is important that I congratulate all those who have been involved in fighting for the rights of sex and gender diverse people in… Read More

Paper presented by Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH at the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers & Therapists (ASSERT) National Sexology Conference, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, 5-6 December 2004. Abstract This discussion paper examines the oppression and exploitation of sex and gender diverse people by the medical and academic establishment. Many people identify as intersex, transsexual,… Read More

A Research Study Pilot Presented at Work, Love & Play: Core Issues in Practice, Third National Psychotherapy in Australia Conference, Melbourne 5-7 July 2002. Published May 2005. Abstract This pilot study interviewed six couples, each of whom have a least one or more partners who are sex and gender diverse. I asked interviewees questions about… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in Polare, April-June 2006 issue Millions of women throughout the world over the past 35 years have had silicone breast implants for differing reasons. Perhaps they felt their breasts were too small, maybe they were uneven, reconstruction after cancer could be called for, or some people who are intersexed… Read More

By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, published in Polare, July-Sept 2006 issue After my last article on breast implant care and safety I received an irate telephone call from a woman who had had cohesive gel implants (CGI Gummy Bears sometimes known as silicone gel implants) six years ago. In my article I said that CGIs… Read More

Poster presented at the World Association for Sexual Health conference, Sydney, 15-21 April, 2007, by Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH Abstract This is a discursive paper about the way in which the term ‘transgender’ has been solicited to take on the meaning of all those humans beings who are not seen as strictly male or female,… Read More