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	P.O.V. - Georgie Girl . Film Synopsis \| PBS
		As Georgina attends to her political duties, making speeches, judging sheep races, meeting constituents, riding in parades, it quickly becomes clear why her rural neighbors elected her: first, as mayor of Carterton and then in 1999 sending her to Wellington as representative of the picturesque Wairarapa district, the country's largest.
		Georgina is eloquent, spontaneous, funny, and honest to a fault — the antithesis of the modern parliamentary politician.
		Georgina retreated to the "remote" town of Carterton for drug rehabilitation, becoming a community organizer and embracing the town that, in turn, embraced her.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/georgiegirl/about.html (562 words)

	Georgina Beyer MP
		Georgina, born George Beyer, is reputedly the first transsexual to be elected to national office in the world.
		Georgina performed in cabaret, drama, theatre and television for over a decade and there is a rich source of archive material we were able to draw upon.
		Beyer is a former theatre, film and television actor, appearing in the soap opera Close to Home - first cast as a man, and a few years later, as a woman.
	www.transgenderzone.com /features/georgie_girl.htm (1129 words)

	steve dow, journalist
		Beyer, wearing her trademark big glasses and dark hair pulled back, with the gay-rights friendly Clark looking on, flawed the Parliament: “I was quoted once as saying this was the stallion that became a gelding and now she's a mare.
		Beyer did not learn about transvestism — that it was possible to change sex — until travelling to Wellington and becoming a part of the gay and drag scene at age 17.
		Georgina made her last appearance as George for her mother Noeline’s funeral — it was a condition of the will that she must appear as a male for the event.
	www.stevedow.com.au /Article/article.asp?id=81 (1558 words)

	Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month UK
		Georgina was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1957.
		Georgina became a Justice of the Peace to add to her public responsibilities in 1997 -- also holding office as a trustee of the NZ Aids Foundation between 1996 and 1998.
		Georgina's achievements show that having a controversial background should be no limitation if you are just plain good at what politicians are there to do -- which is to be an effective representative of the people who elected them - even in the most conservative of communities.
	www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk /history/georginabeyer.htm (1004 words)

	Don Beyer Volvo -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beyer was the Democratic nominee for Governor of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1997, losing to Republican James S. Gilmore III, who had served as Virginia's Attorney General for most of Beyer's second term.
		Beyer is the owner of a chain of Volvo, Land Rover, and Subaru car dealerships in Northern Virginia.
		Don Beyer served as the National Treasurer for the Dean for America presidental campaign of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who in the 2004 Democratic primary was seeking the nomination of that party for President of the United States.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/44/don-beyer-volvo.html (836 words)

	Beyer exits mayoral race - Wairarapa Times-Age - 2007-08-22 17:00:00.0 - localnews
		Georgina Beyer has pulled out of the Carterton mayoral race, saying it is time to move on from politics.
		Ms Beyer said one of the factors weighing in the decision not to run in the Carterton mayoralty was the apathy of her former constituents.
		Ms Beyer is turning 50 this year and said the time is right for different challenges and that she still has a lot to offer the region outside elected government.
	www.times-age.co.nz /localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3745814&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= (837 words)

	Georgina put Carterton on the map
		Georgina is often seen walking around the streets of Carterton, stopping to talk to "the little people" as she goes.
		Georgina was forced to defend herself after a television documentary about her life when anonymous callers told the producers she wasn't a transsexual but a transvestite.
		Georgina sees the speaking rounds as a platform for her to push the district forward, but the greater good of Carterton always comes first.
	wairarapa.co.nz /times-age/weekly/beyer.html (1906 words)

	Georgina Beyer: The double life of Georgie - People, News - The Independent
		Beyer, whose warmth and engaging nature must have eased her path, recalls – with an arch raise of one eyebrow – that her presence was "quite educational" for the town's youth.
		Beyer was approached by Helen Clark's Labour Party and agreed to stand for parliament, although Wairarapa – long a stronghold of the conservative National Party – appeared an unwinnable seat.
		Beyer has sought to be an advocate both for her constituents and for the gay and transsexual communities – a dual loyalty somewhat resented by each side.
	www.independent.co.uk /news/people/georgina-beyer-the-double-life-of-georgie-648719.html (1595 words)

	Georgina Beyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georgina Beyer (b 1957) is the world's first transsexual Member of Parliament, currently (2005) a list MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand.
		In early 2004, Beyer announced that she would not be standing in the 2005 elections, citing what she saw as the unpleasant atmosphere of national politics.
		Georgina has become an instantly recognisable New Zealand personality, widely admired for her intelligence and wit, and her maiden speech to parliament is regarded as one of the best.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgina_Beyer (854 words)

	The Labour Party of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey and local MPs Parekura Horomia and Georgina Beyer were in Dannevirke this morning to mark Rangitäne o Tamaki nui a Rua joining the government’s social entrepreneurship programme.
		MP for Wairarapa, Georgina Beyer, said today a new $8.1 million fund would allow new primary health care methods of nursing to be developed.
		Georgina Beyer MP has welcomed the government’s decision to inject more than $32 million over the next three years into rural primary health care and said this would provide significant reassurance for Wairarapa.
	www.labour.org.nz /Our_mps_top/georgina_beyer/index.html (195 words)

	SSONET.com.au : Sydney Star Observer
		New Zealand parliamentarian Georgina Beyer is no stranger to Sydney, especially since she was a special guest at the 2000 Mardi Gras.
		Beyer is also a Maori and a member of the NZ Labor Party, voted in by a largely white, rural, right-wing electorate.
		Beyer has achieved an acceptance amongst a conservative population rare for a woman, let alone a transsexual.
	www.ssonet.com.au /archives/display.asp?ArticleID=1657 (776 words)

	Georgina Beyer: The woman behind the politician
		Beyer's time on stage under the Alfies spotlight ended in 1989, but she says she still often runs into people who used to go to the club, “and of course they are now adults in their thirties.
		Lack of personal relationship was one of the factors that helped Beyer decide she was going to leave Parliament, she admits, and she gazes somewhere into the middle distance as she reflects on a full and varied life that nonetheless has clearly had its moments of loneliness.
		Lighting yet another cigarette she calms herself down and with a laugh and a confident step Georgina Beyer is off to catch her ride to the airport, and to face yet another new beginning.
	www.gaynz.com /articles/publish/32/printer_1537.php (1487 words)

	Georgina Beyer Profile at Speakers New Zealand
		Goergina Beyer underwent a full sex change in 1984.Elected to the Carterton District Council in 1993, she became the first transsexual Mayor in the world in 1995.
		What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of Parliament, or of any parliament in the world, and what if that person were also a transsexual, the odds may seem insurmountable, but Gerogina is the world's first transsexual to hold such a position.
		Georgina was born in 1957, as she grew up she realised she was a woman trapped inside a male body.
	www.speakers.co.nz /georginabeyer.html (171 words)

	Out in Perth News - Georgina Beyer: Life in Transition
		Not one to be deterred, Georgina finally got the sex change surgery she needed in 1984 and went on to have a successful acting career.
		Though Beyerâ€™s dreams had always been about acting and becoming a complete woman, in many ways it was courage in the face of adversity, her innate sense of fairness and inexorable outspokenness that led her into politics.
		While Beyer is modest about the significance of her achievement â€“ â€˜I tell people that I put the hairline fracture in the glass ceiling that others after me have shattered,â€™ she says â€“Â life in politics wasnâ€™t easy.
	www.outinperth.com /index.php/life/people/georgina-beyer-life-in-transition (1050 words)

	Public Address \| Speaker
		Georgina would also be following in the honourable footsteps of other great madams, such as Carmen's run in Wellington in 1977, and Sally Stanford in San Francisco in 1976 (1).
		Of course, Georgina herself made history back in the 90s when she won a Council seat and then the Mayoralty in the small town of Carterton (which eventuated in her Parliamentary win in 1999), all world firsts for a transsexual woman.
		Apparently the above was a form letter; Georgina had also been asked to run for Mayor of Wellington, and also for her local constituency of Carterton.
	www.publicaddress.net /default,1421.sm (2272 words)

	Xxxxxxxx- (Practical Dreamers Drop-In Centre)
		But Pflag have been inviting me to their meetings for almost 2 years, and the prospect of an address by Georgina Beyer was an incentive I could not resist.
		If there was one phrase that recurred through her address it was “vulnerable minorities.” Even on this day of writing, Georgina was on the Linda Clark radio show defending against attacks by National’s health spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison, on the tiny proportion of the public health budget spent on sex change surgery.
		In Georgina Beyer is a woman who knows the enemy when she sees it, and has no fear in naming its power and malice, yet not so prejudiced against the Church and church people as to believe that all are tarred with the same brush.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~Serlewis/mtke/Beyer.html (619 words)

	MediaRights: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born George Beyer, one-time prostitute turned politician Georgina Beyer was elected to New Zealand's Parliament in 1999, becoming the world's first transsexual to hold a national office.
		Chronicling Georgina's transformations from farm boy to celebrated cabaret diva to grassroots community leader, the documentary couples interviews and sensual images of Beyer's nightclub and film performances with footage from a day in the life of the Minister of Parliament.
		The film presents a remarkable account of Beyer's precedent-setting accomplishment, revealing her intelligence, charisma, and humor.
	www.mediarights.org /film/georgie_girl (103 words)

	International Women's Day
		Georgina Beyer is a most interesting person, a trans-sexual who was brought up as a man but who 'changed sex' in the early 60's.
		Georgina Beyer with Sacred Heart Students on photo left, and on the photo on the right with Wainuoimata High School students.
		"Georgina Beyer told us this morning that in her first term as an MP she had found herself bowing to the pressures of parliament and toeing the party line.
	sisouthafrica.freeservers.com /iwday.html (374 words)

	printarticle.
		To sum up Georgina Beyer's life story so far: first he became a she, then she became an MP.
		Or, as Beyer herself put it in 1999 after becoming the first transsexual elected to New Zealand's Parliament, hers is a story of "the stallion who became a gelding, the gelding that became a mayor, and the mare who finally became a member".
		After each screening, Beyer will attend a question-and-answer session - which should prove entertaining, not merely because her life has been so unusual, but because she has a quality that is rare in a politician: candour.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/06/07/1022982767333.html (497 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com New Zealand lawmaker has brick, note tossed through office door
		Georgina Beyer, seeking a third three-year term as a center-left Labour legislator, said whoever threw the brick should save their protest for the ballot box in the Sept. 17 general elections.
		Beyer, part Maori, said she believes the message was for Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia and referred to the government's plans to nationalize the nation's entire shoreline.
		Beyer, the nation's only transsexual lawmaker, was a former male prostitute and stripper who underwent a sex change.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/09/13/62766.html (1476 words)

	Georgina Beyer MP - the first 6 months
		Ms Beyer says she is aware that her “cautiously conservative” approach can leave her open to accusations of inaction.
		She thought the amount of paperwork generated in local government was bad enough but says it pales alongside the output of the parliamentary presses.
		Ms Beyer says the unrelenting workload has given her added admiration for MPs who manage to organise their calendar to allow for time with their families.
	wairarapa.co.nz /times-age/weekly/beyer2.html (1386 words)

	Honoring (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A one-time sex worker of Maori descent turned public official, Georgina stunned the world in 1999 by becoming the first transgender person to hold national office.
		Born George Beyer, this unlikely politician grew up on a small Tarankai farm and later became a small-time celebrity on the cabaret circuit in Auckland.
		With charisma, humor and charm, Beyer unapologetically recounts her fascinating life story, shares how she overcame adversity and discloses the reasons she decided to run for office in a mostly all white, conservative electorate.
	www.dcblackpride.org /Site2004/film_festival.htm (409 words)

	DAILY NEWS: Transgender "Georgie Girl" Finds a Home, "Chocolat" Release, and Showtime Premieres "Daddy and Them"
		The film, shot in New Zealand, profiles Georgina Beyer, a Maori former sex worker who eventually became the world's first known transgendered politician elected to a national office.
		Beyer was elected to New Zealand's parliament in 1999 from a mostly white and conservative constituency.
		The film chronicles Beyer's transformations from a farm boy to cabaret diva, to grassroots community leader to her present-day life as a member of parliament.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_020624_briefs.html (513 words)

	News & Politics
		Georgina Beyer, the world's first transsexual to be elected a Member of Parliament, delivered her "maiden" speech to the New Zealand Parliament on February 8.
		Beyer joked, "I was quoted once as saying that 'This was the stallion that became a gelding, and now she's a mayor.' I suppose I do have to say that I have now found myself to be a Member!
		They are important to me." Beyer also expressed particular gratitude to her "auntie," actually her cousin, the late Hana Te Hemara, "a woman who was important to Maoridom" as well as to Beyer herself.
	www.planetout.com /news/article.html?2000/02/09/2 (955 words)

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