Current Version
| Region | Australia |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | past |
| End Date | Jul 1, 2017 |
| Description | Legal, but requires hormone treatment |
| Sources | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Australia |
Reports (2)
- Status is not correct "Queersland says no surgery required but then says application requires surgery"
- Note field is incorrect "You must require surgery in order to change gender on birth certificates in qld and nsw, hormone therapy alone doesn’t allow us to change it"
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Revision History (2)
| Old Value (Original) | New Value (Current) | |
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| End Date | (NONE) | Jul 1, 2017 |
| Description | Legal, but requires hormone treatment |
created by christierroberts
| Original entry | |
|---|---|
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | past |
| End Date | now |
| Description | (empty) |
| Sources | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Australia |
Reports (7)
- Status is not correct "No matter where you live, changing gender with the federal government only requires a letter from a medical practitioner. In some states there is a requirement for surgery to change your gender but not all so there should at least be a note that the requirement for surgery does not apply everywhere. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Australia"
- Status is not correct "source is correct, however (according to the source) the law varies from state to state - to change gender on a birth certificate in ACT, WA and SA, sex reassignment surgery is optional; in the rest of the states/territories it is required"
- Status is not correct "Legal without surgery in South Austrlia and the Australian Capital Territory but you will need a letter from a therapist/psychologist. "
- Status is not correct "Changing gender does not require surgery:
http://guides.dss.gov.au/guide-social-security-law/2/2/2
Changing sex does not require surgery: https://www.passports.gov.au/passports-explained/how-apply/eligibility-citizenship-and-identity/sex-and-gender-diverse-passport"
- Status is not correct "In 2014 the High Court of Australia held that the Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 (NSW) did not require a person having undergone genital reassignment surgery to identify as either a man or a woman. The ruling permits a gender registration of "non-specific"."
- Newer law has been passed "http://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases/case-p15/2011"
- Status is not correct "In WA a case recently went through appeals all the way to the High Court. A person was recognised in their newly assigned gender although they had not had reassignment surgery, they were living the life of their new gender and 'had the characteristics' of the newly assigned gender. AMean Hosiery is the name of the person, google it. So surgery is not a requirement of gender recognition. "