Georgina Beyer

The country's first openly transgender Mayor and MP Georgina Beyer is being remembered as a fearless fighter for rainbow rights whose love and compassion will live on forever.

She died yesterday at… Audio

Yesterday afternoon came the news of the death of Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transgender mayor and MP.. Here's audio from the 2004 civil union protests outside parliament where she… Audio

The world's first transgender politician, Georgina Beyer, has died. Friends of the ground-breaking politician and activist say she died this afternoon after a long illness.

Her friends Scotty and… Video, Audio

Today on The Panel Wallace Chapman and panellists Zoe George and Andrew Hoggard discuss the new climate centric transport plan. Also they discuss National's ECE rebate plan, and we remember Georgina… Audio

Georgina Beyer became the worlds first transgender Member of Parliament when she won the Wairarapa seat in 1999, her time in politics was fraught with being on 'the outer' and difficult when it came… Audio

Georgina Beyer knows all about breaking barriers, becoming the first transgender MP in the world. But what is her biggest regret as a Māori MP in Parliament? Video, Audio

The second season, Matangireia - Māori Political Legacies, explores the careers of former Māori members of Parliament. Video

What is a TERF and why are they ruining feminism? In this episode, Alice heads to Wellington to find out. Video

City Rail Link in Auckland is giving the public the job of choosing a name for its tunnel boring machine. And it wants it named after an inspirational woman.

Voting has opened and the three… Audio

"From the good and the great to the lowest of the low, she bridged a gap," says Georgina Beyer of transgender trailblazer, Carmen Rupe. Find out more in this episode of Eyewitness. Audio

Fabulous, flamboyant and hugely successful in her time, today's Biography is about Carmen, the Wellington transgender entrepreneur Audio

The Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt says it's regrettable that changes to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and intersex status are not being actioned swiftly.

The changes are… Audio

At the 2018 Word Christchurch writers' festival, 125 years of women's suffrage is discussed by a panel of leading New Zealanders. Kim Hill is in the chair. Audio

A special concert mounted by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to celebrate 125 years of women's suffrage in Aotearoa New Zealand, Auckland Town Hall, 29 November 2018. Audio

Former MP and transgender activist Georgina Beyer wants police to be able to march in uniform for Auckland Pride Festival.

Earlier this month the board of Auckland Pride said it would allow police to… Audio

In the second event of her highly anticipated New Zealand tour, US whistleblower Chelsea Manning talked about solitary confinement, "the whirring death machine" of the military and police, and what… Audio

Victor Rodger explores the personal, cultural and political aspects of transgender and non-binary identity with Georgina Beyer, Lexie Matheson, Nikolai Talamahina and Aych McArdle.  Audio

Russell Brown talks about confronting entitlement with the former MP Georgina Beyer, academic Richard Pamatatau, activist Julia Amua Whaipooti and artist Tāwhanga Nopera. Audio

On Valentine's Day 2007 Georgina Beyer brought down the curtain on her 8 year career in government. The first transsexual in the world to be elected to parliament, her short time in national politics… Audio