The rise of a warrior
This story was first published in 2018 and is being republished following news of Georgina Beyer’s death.
Georgina Beyer had been invited to address both the Oxford and Cambridge University Unions in the United Kingdom in 2018 - a significant achievement. On the eve of the trip, David Herkt talked to her about her life, opinions, her illness and her revealing encounter with Chelsea Manning.
“Welcome to all of you to this amazing evening … an evening with Chelsea Manning,” announced Georgina Beyer, former MP for Wairarapa and the world’s first transsexual to be elected to government office.
It was an event that would once have been inconceivable. A transgendered New Zealand political and media personality, once a sex worker, chairing an event at the three-levelled Q Theatre in Auckland, which showcased another trans woman, an ex-United States Army officer and convicted whistle-blower.
Link to video and article: Georgina Beyer: The rise of a warrior - NZ Herald
