Monique, Yamana;

The story would lead with the two aspects I mentioned: you wanting to use
the female dressing rooms in the future and denying you are an
exhibitionists, along with quotes from the email.
It would then quote from the email.
These would be the quotes from Yamana.
I can also confirm we are looking at publishing the pictures from your
website, I don't know whether they will definitely show your face but they
certainly could,




Monique's partner, Yamana Bradford, said her partner was making no further
public comment, apart from the email to the Daily Telegraph.
But she did confirm that Monique was planning to use the female dressing
rooms at Silverwater prison in the future - likely to be within the next 12
months.
Ms Bradford said Monique had told her fellow workers about five weeks ago
that she was a transsexual, who was intending to use the female facilities
and also a female uniform in the future.
Monique wants to use the facilities as a pre-operational transsexual, before
her intended change into a transgender woman.
Ms Bradford said that under a State law introduced in 1996 Monique was
allowed to do this.
Ms Bradford also denied that Monique was an "exhibitionist" - saying that
she simply did her job to the best of her ability and dressed as a male at
work.
""She is trying to fit into society - even in her private life she doesn't
wear outlandish clothes but simply clothes that other people would wear,""
Ms Bradford said.
""The paper has published photos of her legs in suspenders but those are
what women wear and they are not labelled exhbitionists.
""Only two or three of her fellow officers have an issue with the changing
rooms.
""She is considered fairly professional in her job and wants to keep it that
way.
""Some colleagues have known about her private life two years.
""She found the publicity damaging and just wants to keep her job, which she
likes. She is trying to get a good standing back in the job.
""She is allowed to use the toilet facilities of her chosen gender - that's
the law.""
Ms Bradford said Monique's predicament could be a litmus test for the rights
of transsexual and transgender people across NSW.
She said about 60 per cent of transsexual and transgender people did not
have a job - because of discrimination against them but some employers.
Ms Bradford said however the NSW Corrective Services department had been
quite supportive of her partner, although some of her fellow female officers
had objected to the idea of sharing a changing room with her.
Ms Bradford said Monique, who began hormone medication for her change into a
transgender female, at present did not dress in a female uniform at work.
Monique has worked with the prisoner transport unit at Silverwater for 11
years.
Her website gives other details about her lifestyle, such as.... quoting
from website

Ms Bradford said the website was like a photo album, which was of interest
to other people in her community.


Ms Bradford, also transsexual,. works as a nurse at a Sydney hospital and
says she has no problems with doctors, other nurses, patients or other
members of the public.


NOTE: This is the rough copy of his newspaper article. After a conversation with the reporter some changes were made to the article and sentences changed around.