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The young Australian who changed trans rights for children: ‘Everything I do, I do for the kids’

Georgie Stone is sat in front of her computer, lit by a desk lamp. “So, update: I’m gonna talk a little bit about boys,” she groans into the webcam, face contorting into a cartoonish cringe. “I’ve had a crush on this guy for about 10 months … and turns out he had a crush on my best friend.”

For a second, it feels like the tribulations of adolescent romance might be her only concern. In that footage – which comes from a new documentary short called The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone, spanning the first 19 years of her life – the trans advocate is just 16. And yet, by then she had

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