Review of Western Australian
Legislation in Relation to the Registration or Change of a Person’s Sex and/or
Gender and Status Relating to Sex Characteristics
This Report was tabled in the State Parliament Legislative Council
recently (December 2018). It was commissioned by WA Attorney General and
produced by the Law Reform Commission of WA. Key points covered include:
- Proposal that the law be changed ‘to remove sex classifications from birth certificates’
- The report says that reforms involving removal of sex classifications from birth certificates ‘is happening in other Australian jurisdictions and abroad at a rapid rate’
- Proposes legislation to ‘expressly prohibit the recording of sex or gender on birth certificates’
- It puts forward 17 recommendations including proposal to amend The Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA), The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998 (WA), and the The Gender Reassignment Act 2000 (WA).
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