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as a trans woman was revealed. In 1992, during a business trip to the French
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activist. Concerned with the well-being of the
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Netherlands. She is the daughter of Annie Garda Van Unen (1931-2015), a former senior accountant of the Breda Candy Company FAAM, and Wilhelmus (Wim) Gerardus Renard (1931–2009), a businessman who founded the REACS Company in 1956. Renard is a descendant of the
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Netherlands. The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legally and fully recognise post-operative transsexuals by
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German composer/conductor Paul Albin Stenz who was awarded the Gold Medal of Orange-Nassau by Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. One year prior to his death in 1918 he was naturalized as a Dutch citizen. Renard's grandfather, Johannes (Paul) Renard was a cityscape painter in Rotterdam.
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between November 2001 and March 2005. During a vacation in Thailand in the winter of 2005 she started dating a Thai physician of Chinese descent. Renard returned to India three months later but finally decided to immigrate to Thailand. Renard lived in
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at the special chair of transsexology at the Free University Amsterdam, guided her through the process. The medical team involved in her GRS included plastic surgeons Auke de Boer and J. Joris Hage as well as gynecologists C. Jager and A. Drogendijk.
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10/OCT/03 ASPEKT PUBLISHERS RELEASES PANTAU IN INDIA IN THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM. UITGEVERIJ ASPEKT PUBLICEERT PANTAU IN INDIA IN NEDERLAND EN BELGIE. Wat enkele lezers vinden van Veronique's Pantau in India
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to being a woman with the support of her family, friends and people in her hometown. Renard's mother renamed her Véronique. In 1983, Renard was granted permission by a court in Utrecht to change her
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19/NOV/03 BILTSE & BILTHOVENSE COURANT, "Veronique Renard writes to help the Tibetan plight. (Veronique Renard schrijft om Tibetanen te helpen in hun strijd)" Interview: Anneke Iseger
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accepting a new law in 1985. Fearing rejection and discrimination, Renard never volunteered to mention her gender reassignment to friends, colleagues and lovers.
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