Georgie Stone

Meet Georgie Stone

2017 Young People’s Human Rights Medal

2018 Victorian Young Australian of the Year

Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service Ambassador

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Georgie Stone is a transgender girl from Melbourne, Victoria. She is an advocate for trans and gender diverse children and youth as well as a full time student currently completing her VCE studies. Georgie’s visibility along with sharing her experiences and insights has shone a light on the challenges facing gender diverse children and adolescents in Australia. She has been able to articulate the child’s perspective in a way that has created understanding and acceptance.

Georgie and her twin brother Harry were born in 2000, but from a very young age Georgie expressed clearly that she was a girl.

She began seeing specialist doctors at the RCH, Melbourne at the age of seven after she became very distressed about her gender identity. By the age of eight she began a social transition. Georgie experienced bullying and an unsupportive school environment.  She was placed in unsafe situations where her parents were unable to protect her, so they decided to move to a more supportive school. Georgie was then able to use the female only spaces and wear the girl’s uniform with support from her school.

In 2015 Georgie and her family returned to court to access Stage 2 treatment. Georgie was deemed competent to make her own medical decisions and began treatment immediately. She also secured permission to publicly identify herself in whatever manner she deemed appropriate. This was the beginning of her public advocacy. Since then Georgie has been a visible and passionate advocate for the removal of the Family Court from the medical decisions of trans teens.

In 2016 she spoke at a gathering  of the Parliamentary Friends of LGBTI Australians in Parliament House, Canberra about the effects the court process had on her. Later that year Australian Story broadcast ‘About a Girl’ which followed Georgie’s experiences through childhood and the Family Court. It refocused the discussion about the rights of transgender children in this country and the challenges they face.

Georgie though is much more than a trans trailblazer. She’s an ordinary girl who loves music, movies and friendships. She has a love of theatre and acting and attends drama classes at 16th Street Actors Studio. She is a feminist and a writer.

Her passions are singing/songwriting, playing guitar and piano. Georgie enjoys travelling and learning from other cultures. She is a die hard Harry Potter fan and would much prefer going to Hogwarts than a Muggle school any day. She is devoted to her family including Lottie, the Love Puppy and Joy, the Ironically Named Cat.

Georgie is a Year 12 student at Elwood College, Melbourne where she is School Captain. At this stage she would like to be a journalist and broadcaster when she leaves university.