Georgie Stone grew up in a very loving home with her parents and twin brother, Harry. From an early age, Georgie had the courage and support to live as
the girl she truly is. Questioned at the age of nine about puberty blockers, she said she thought they were a good thing. “Then I won’t grow into a boy.
I’ll be myself.”
At the age of thirteen, Georgie and her parents challenged the court process so that she and other families would no longer have to go through the
courts for stage one of the gender change process, and they won. But that still left stage two. While Georgie won her case and got the hormone treatment
she needed (the youngest person in Australia to get them), she and her family couldn’t rest knowing that other trans kids and their families would have
to endure the same gruelling fight they had been through.
Still only fifteen, Georgie found she had become a Human Rights Campaigner, fighting for the lives of trans kids in Australia to get the medical
they deserved. She and her family appealed for new legislation through Parliament and within a couple of years, they had succeeded. Thanks to
Georgie, her family and their team, kids in Australia can now start their correct puberty, regardless of the body they were born with.
From here, Georgie won two awards: the GLBTI Person of the Year Award from the GLOBE Community Awards and the Making a Difference Award from the
Anti-Defamation Commission, becoming the youngest ever recipient of both awards. She was also featured in the list of the 25 LGBTI Australians to
Watch in 2017 by the Gay News Network.
By the age of seventeen, Georgie was gaining a lot of recognition for all the hard work she had put into making other people’s lives better. She
was featured in Advice to My 12 Year Old Self, which consisted of two minute interviews with thirty seven prominent Australian women to celebrate
the United Nation’s International Day of the Girl. She was also made the official Ambassador for the Royal Hospital Gender Service in Melbourne.
On top of this, she was awarded the Young People’s Human Rights Medal and the Liberty Victoria, Young Voltaire Award.
Already shining with her activism and winning an award for Young Australian of the Year in Victoria, Georgie was also a good student and became
College Co-Captain at school in 2018. Georgie then went ahead with her Gender Affirmation Surgery as soon as she turned eighteen.
Having taken drama classes since the age of fifteen and feeling more herself than she had before, Georgie decided to take on her next project.
Six months after her operation, she sat down for talks with the producers and writers of Neighbours about creating a truthful trans character
for their show. And so, the character of Mackenzie Hargreaves was created. Mackenzie’s story showed a frightened teenage girl coming out as trans,
finding a Chosen Family, making peace with her dad who initially didn’t accept her, having her Gender Affirming Surgery, losing her virginity, graduating,
finding a career, falling in love, getting married and tragically losing her husband.
Georgie and the younger cast participated in Neighbours: Erinsborough High, a short spin off show in 2019 and she was promoted to a regular cast
member in 2020. In that same year, she co-wrote an episode with Executive Producer, Jason Herbison. She was also nominated for Best Daytime Star
at the 2020 and 2022 Inside Soap Awards. Further awards came from Georgie’s activism - in 2019, having been nominated the year before, she was awarded Hero of the Year. She was also
given the Create Change Award at the Channel 7 Young Achiever’s Award. She was nominated for the People’s Choice Award, and then in 2020,
Georgie was given the Medal of the Order of Australia, the youngest person to be recognised that year.
Outside of Neighbours, Georgie has continued to advocate for transgender children. In 2022, Georgie released the emotional and educational
documentary, The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone, sharing her story with the world. It Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
and the Sydney Film Festival before being made widely available on Netflix.
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