Australian Story: Feb 24
Australian Story profiles Lt. Col Cate McGregor, the highest profile military individual in Australia who is transgender.
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Monday’s Australian Story profiles Lt. Col Cate McGregor, the highest profile military individual in Australia who is transgender.
And just as fascinating, the episode is introduced by the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.
“We all wear masks you know. At some point you have to rip it off and say who am I.” Lt. Col Cate McGregor
“I’ll remember till the day I die. I can remember just saying, I am with you.” David Morrison, the Chief of the Army
Lt. Colonel Cate McGregor AM has been a participant in some of the most significant chapters in recent Australian history.
She has been a political strategist for both the ALP and the Liberal Party.
In her current role as a senior Army officer, she wrote last year’s landmark speech by the chief of the Army David Morrison which went viral around the world.
Now, she is the most high profile individual in Australia to ‘come out’ as a transgendered person.
For more than five decades, Cate McGregor was Malcolm McGregor, cricket tragic , husband, spin doctor, friend and confidante to powerful figures across the political and social spectrum. But she says she had been troubled since childhood about her gender.
Nevertheless, she was able to repress her feelings and convince herself, and those closest to her, that she was a man like any other.
So when Malcolm finally decided to become Cate she was terrified about the likely reaction from friends and colleagues.
Prime Minister, Abbott, Army Chief David Morrison, Liberal pollster Mark Textor and political journalist Barrie Cassidy are among a range of high profile individuals who speak candidly about Cate’s transformation and its impact on them.
Monday February 24, 8pm on ABC1
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Good on you Cate, enjoy the rest of your life
You deserve much happiness
They’ve done an interview previously abc.net.au/news/2013-07-05/one-plus-one-lieutenant-colonel-cate-mcgregor/4802564
Fairfax reported why Abbott was introducing this smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-to-introduce-australian-story-for-transgender-friend-cate-mcgregor-20140220-333×4.html
Had me at McGregor lost me at Textor. Textor is a Malcolm Tucker wannabe that fails at every single level.
I won’t be watching this. Any show that will try and make us believe Abbort is a compassionate caring man will have me reaching for the remote.
Presumably Tony Abbott’s appearance is “fascinating” because it shows he is not the bigot that Julia Gillard et al made him out to be.