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[dreamer_easy]

A new Australian law leaves transitioning transgender women and men stuck with their birth sex on their passport, making them vulnerable to suspicion and harassment when they travel overseas, as well as being just plain humiliating. It's a bit of bureaucratic nonsense which serves no purpose other than to add hassles and misery to peoples' lives.

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[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

Is the law set up so that the person who changes gender changes their ID only once they're post-op?

I could imagine that a transitioning person who had the new gender on the ID could be accused of falsifying their data if s/he were ever strip-searched in a foreign country, but that's got to be a rare occurance.

How many people would this law affect?

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

That is madness. Exactly what purpose does it serve to force people into listing their birth sex? What do the government think people can get away with if a sex is not listed at all? What the hell difference does is make???

[stevencaldwell.livejournal.com]

Well, our government won't be happy until we are all white, Evangelical Christain, conservative, straight and dress to the right.

Time for a revolution.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Who can we write to?

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

I'd thought this law had come in ages ago because I'd heard of people having problems for ages. But from as much as I hear about this coming in now, I guess they must have been specific cases (or rotten luck).

What's the point, anyway? I mean, I can see the obvious issues of getting a name and appearance accurate on a passport, but why the gender?

The article doesn't say: Does this apply to post- and pre-operational people?

[the-cockfighter.livejournal.com]

Whilst a government should be a few steps ahead of the public and lead, the political process on a day to day basis involves dealing with the media and the public image. Writing to MPs is a step, but I think efforts should be directed to engage and convince the community that this is the direction the community should be heading towards.