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29 June 2018, Issue 914
Finding fulfilment as a female
Inside
Bay fuel tax? p3
Scandinavia in NZ p12
BIRD-E watching p16
Ariana auder is a confident and courageous woman who turns heads everywhere she goes. Not ust because she’s Tauranga’s transgender celebrity, but because she’s unapologetically herself. The 2 -year-old transgender female was born as
your typical iwi bloke, with tools on her belt and a fast car stored out the back. She may have been your neighbour or ust the person you sit ne t to on the bus. ut she wasn’t herself.
“Something wasn’t right” and Ariana knew this since the age of five. She was in the wrong body. To find out more about Ariana’s ourney transitioning from male to female, go to pages -5. Photo: Nikki South.
Flying high for Matariki p41
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