2006 MELBOURNE TRANNY AWARDS: VOTING NOW OPEN

Click here to vote in the 2006 Melbourne Tranny Awards

Vote for the following categories:

1. Most Outstandingly Unhelpful and Transphobic Gay and Lesbian Organisation
2. Most Supportive and Trans-Friendly Health Professional
3. Most Trans-Friendly Organisation
4. Most Unexpectedly Non-Traumatic Coming Out Moment
5. Best Genderfucking Event of 2006
6. Most Misinformation in a Newspaper or Magazine Article
7. Best Example of Simultaneous Racism, Sexism and Transphobia from A ‘GLBTIQ’ Perspective
8. The Harry Benjamin Award for the Most Inappropriate Comment by a Psychiatrist
9. The Milli Vanilli Award for the Most Lazy and Uninspired Drag Performance of 2006
10. The TransAmerica Award for the Most Conservative Trans Movie
11. The Golden Shower Award for the Best Gender Neutral Bathroom in Melbourne
12. The Ratbag Award for the Most Incorrigible Gender-Variant Upstart
13. The Red Tape Award for the Most Time Consuming Gender Related Administrative Nightmare
14. The Sharp Learning Curve Award for Most Improvement in Gender Awareness
15. The Token Award for the Best Performance of Trans-Friendliness Without the Action to Back it Up
16. International Achievement Award for the Best Example of Trans Advocacy Overseas
17. Best Tranny

To vote, simply tick the boxes of the nominees you want to win.

You can vote for multiple entrants in a category, and you can vote as many times as you like for each nominee.

All voting is anonymous. Voting closes on Saturday December 16th at 12pm sharp.

Don’t forget to come to the 2006 Tranny Awards ceremony.

WHERE:
Near the Dolphin Fountain
Fitzroy Gardens
Wellington St East Melbourne
Melways map ref 2G, B2.
(Catch the 48 or 75 tram from Flinders St)

WHEN:
Sunday December 17
2pm picnic
Awards presentation at 4pm
BYO picnic blanket, chairs, food and beverages
No RSVP necessary

THEME: glitz and glamour, baby. Come walk the pink carpet with us….

The Trannys are about celebrating the joys and difficulties of trans/queer existence with a dash of glamour, an ounce of piss-taking, and the serious need to out the crappy transphobic institutions that make our lives hell. We challenge the conservatism of the pink champagne circuit, where the same ‘community leaders’ parade around, year after dull year. We challenge the skewed representations of the queer media, for whom the latest Anthony Callea single is more important than trans and queer people living with poverty, discrimination and violence. We challenge the fallacy that there is a GLBTQI community in which we are all equal.

By awarding prizes for transphobia, tokenism, unprofessional psychiatry, lazy drag performances and bureaucratic nightmares, we draw attention to the everyday discrimination many people in the ‘GLBTIQ’ community experience because of their gender presentation. By awarding prizes for supportive healthcare, gender-neutral bathrooms, gender-messing events and improvements in the community’s treatment of transpeople, we honour the random kindnesses of strangers and the moving tide of knowledge about trans and gender-variant people, and the growing acceptance that for most of us humans, gender is never stable.