Growing up transgender | Monique Schafter | TEDxUltimo

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Walkley Award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Monique Schafter interviews Elizabeth Duck-Chong and Ruben Cuda about their experiences growing up transgender. Transgender is a term used to describe people who don’t identify with the sex or gender they were assigned at birth.

Elizabeth and Ruben feature in the short documentary “In My Shoes” co-directed by Monique and Mat Govoni for the Gender Centre NSW.

Monique Schafter is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who reports for the ABC’s nightly current affairs program, 7.30.

In this role she has interviewed a wide range of incredible humans including young Afghan asylum seekers, an Anglican priest advocating for marriage equality, music legends The Beach Boys, and Russian feminist punk collective, Pussy Riot.

Outside of 7.30, Monique recently co-directed the short documentary ‘In My Shoes’ exploring the issues faced by young transgender Australians.

Last year she directed the documentary ‘Our Little Secret’ (ABC2) exploring the motivation behind child sexual abuse. The story combines human concern with rational thinking and is told through the eyes of 28-year-old survivor who interviews experts, a family torn apart by abuse, and an offender.

Previously, Monique co-hosted the ABC’s ground-breaking current affairs program Hungry Beast.

She also writes columns for a range of LGBT publications.

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