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Transgender woman Martine Delaney recognised for service to Tasmanian community
LGBT rights advocate Martine Delaney has become the first Tasmanian transgender woman to be recognised on the Honour Roll of Women — an award given to those who have made an “outstanding contribution” to the state.
Key points:
- Martine Delaney has become the first transgender woman recognised on Tasmania’s Honour Roll of Women
- Ms Delaney campaigned for 15 years to make the inclusion of gender optional on birth certificates in Tasmania
- Advocate Rodney Croome said Ms Delaney had helped make Tasmania “a better place for everyone”
Ms Delaney said it was “humbling” to have been recognised.
“It’s not been something that transgender women in Tasmania have been nominated or inducted into previously,” she said.
“It was a bit of a humbling thing to…
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