02x29 Just Like A Woman
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Grant Bowler | As: | |
Ewen Leslie | As: | |
Sam Healy | As: Jaz Hillerman | |
Brett Stiller | As: | |
Mirrah Foulkes | As: |
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Connor is stunned to find Alana, a female patient, is a pre-operative transgender. His resolve to cope is shattered when he subsequently learns that she used to be his football coach, and a mentor after Connor's father died. Repulsed and betrayed, Connor wants nothing more to do with Alana. Nor can he understand how Alana's son Tom, also an old friend, can be so accepting of the situation. Alana is diagnosed with breast cancer as a result of the hormone therapy she is on. She refuses to have a mastectomy and will not stop taking the hormones, as it would mean returning to the body she felt trapped in all her life. Connor confronts her for being a coward. Surely any life is better than none at all? Tom helps Connor appreciate the significance and bravery of Alana's transformation. Her distress over the injustice of her fate and insistence that she is still the person Connor admired, finally makes him accept not only the choice Alana has made, but Alana as a woman. While Steph worries a
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Grant Bowler |
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Ewen Leslie |
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Sam Healy |
Jaz Hillerman |
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Brett Stiller |
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Mirrah Foulkes |
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Erik Thomson |
Mitch Stevens |
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John Howard |
Jonathan Healy |
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Conrad Coleby |
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Penne Hackforth-Jones |
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Daniel Feuerriegel |
Cameron 'Indy' Jones |
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Andrew McKaige |
Peter Morrison |
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Natalie Saleeba |
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Kirrily White |
Stephanie Markham |
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Mark Priestley |
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Martin Lynes |
Luke Forlano |
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Judith McGrath |
Von Ryan |
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Jack Campbell |
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Alexandra Davies |
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Wil Traval |
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Dan Feuerriegel |
Cameron 'Indy' Jones |
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Georgie Parker |
Terri Sullivan |
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Ben Tari |
Jared Levine |
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Jeremy Cumpston |
Connor Costello |
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Joy Smithers |
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Rachel Gordon |
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Andrew Supanz |
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Jolene Anderson |
Erica Templeton |
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Libby Tanner |
Bronwyn Craig |
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