Landmark new laws could be passed as early as next week allowing people in Tasmania to change their gender on their birth certificates. Once their application goes through they can then apply to change their birth certificate details, or have the gender field removed, although someone's preferred gender will always remain shown on the register. The requirement for married transgender partners to divorce before they can change the gender on their birth certificate will also be removed. 'When historians come to write about how Tasmania adopted the best transgender laws in the nation, and the world, they will say the quietest voices spoke the loudest,' she said. The ACT, SA and NT have similar laws but Tasmania's laws would go further by allowing people to remove gender entirely from their birth certificate.

Source: Daily Mail April 05, 2019 02:04 UTC