Word for Word

2 Feb 2012

My Intersex Life – Cr Tony Briffa

Arts, Health, News & Politics, Society & Culture

1 child in 4500 born at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital, is ‘Intersex’. What does ‘Intersex’ really mean? Today on Word For Word we are joined by a true pioneer within the GLBTI community. Cr Tony Briffa is the Mayor of the City of Hobson’s Bay located in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. He talks frankly about his life growing up as Antoinette, why at 29yo he became Tony and how he happily identifies as both male and female.

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