NSW urged to follow rest of Australia to permit trans people to update their documentation without requiring surgery
hen Coonan enrolled his first-born son into a Brisbane daycare in late 2019, he asked they disregard the birth certificate and refer to him as the boy’s dad. Despite his legal efforts to have it changed, the document still listed Coonan as his mother.
The new laws allow for one or two mothers to be listed on a child’s birth certificate, or one or two fathers – or for them simply to be listed as “parents”. They will also enableQueenslanders to change the sex listed on their own birth certificate without – as was previously required – the need for sexual reassignment surgery.
Alastair Lawrie, policy and advocacy director at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, said this was one of “a wide range of LGBTIQ law reform issues” upon which NSW would soon become “an outlier”.
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