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Not had surgery but want to change your birth certificate?
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Have you had trouble amending your sex or gender on your documents?
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Feeling discriminated against by bureaucracy and red tape over sex or gender?
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Had a bad experience filling in forms?
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Do your government records note an incorrect sex or gender?
We want to hear from you!
The Australian Human Rights Commission is looking at the legal recognition of sex and the ability of people who are sex and gender diverse to amend their documents and records.
We need your stories and views to help us consider how the system can work better for you. Please join the discussion on the sex and gender diversity blog.
Message from Graeme Innes, the Human Rights Commissioner
- Play Audio (mp3)
- transcript
How to join the blog
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Log on here to join the discussion. You will see a list of questions in the sex and gender diversity blog.
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Click on any questions that interest you. You will be able to read the comments that other people have made. If you want to make a comment, at the end of all the comments click on the Post-Reply button.
Current discussions are:
“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. No one shall be forced to undergo medical procedures, including sex reassignment surgery, sterilisation or hormonal therapy, as a requirement for legal recognition of their gender identity. No status, such as marriage or parenthood, may be invoked as such to prevent the legal recognition of a person’s gender identity.”
Principle 3, Yogyakarta Principles, the Right to Recognition before the Law
Other resources
- Proposal for reforming the current system of the legal recognition of sex (September 2008)
- Sex and gender diversity terminology
- Criteria for changing sex or gender
- Australian Human Rights Commission consultation on sex and gender diversity (July 2008)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Equality page
- Yogyakarta Principles
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