Comments on: Trans rights get a boost in NSW Parliament /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/trans-rights-get-a-boost-in-nsw-parliament/142984 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Paul /news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/trans-rights-get-a-boost-in-nsw-parliament/142984#comment-512792 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:06:01 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=142984#comment-512792 This is long overdue indeed. You should not have to undergo surgery to change your gender on a drivers licence or birth certificate. Trans* and intersex people should be fully recognised on passports as well – a federal issue. Both trans* and Intersex people should also get equality status on certificates and licences.

Also lets abolish/repeal the section that “forces a divorce” on marriage certificates for trans* and intersex people while we are at it too.

And while we are at it changing the laws of NSW. The archaic Anti-discrimination laws in NSW are also out-of-date and need to be updated – to abolish “homosexuality, transgender, marital or domestic status” and to explicitly include and replace with better 21st century terminology of “sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or relationship status, HIV status and/or intersex status”.

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