Big changes proposed for Queensland birth certificates
Queenslanders may soon be able to make a big change to their birth certificate, with new legislation being introduced into parliament this week.
Under the legislation being proposed by the Palaszczuk government, residents will be able to change the sex on their birth certificate without having undergone gender reassignment surgery.
Currently, if transgender and gender diverse Queenslanders want to change the sex on their birth certificate, they have to provide statutory declarations from two medical practitioners verifying they have undergone “sexual reassignment” surgery.
Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman said the current law “unnecessarily medicalises the recognition of a person’s lived identity”, according to The Courier Mail.
She noted that gender affirming surgery can also be “inaccessible and unaffordable” to many people as it is not covered by Medicare.
If the legislation is passed, it will also allow for two mothers or two fathers to be listed on a birth certificate.
Right now, only one person can be listed as a mother or a father on a child’s birth certificate.
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