'What's the difference?'

The Dominion Post | Thursday, 13 September 2007

TRANSEXUAL: Jacquie Grant arrives at the High Court in Wellington.

The significance of what is believed to be the first time a transsexual has sat as a member of a High Court bench is being downplayed by the Hokitika woman who has the honour.

"What's the difference?" Jacquie Grant said when she arrived at the High Court at Wellington yesterday.

Dubbed the "tranny granny", Grant was one of two Human Rights Review Tribunal members sitting with Justice Denis Clifford on an appeal against a tribunal ruling.

Grant is a businesswoman and former local body politician who was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998 for her services to the community. – Dominion Post