How Many Times Should One Change One’s Gender in Australia’s California? By James Reed
The story has it that "millions" of Australians will soon be able to change their gender on their birth certificates, with the woke Western Australian government, also set to give 8 percent of the state to Aboriginals, issuing changes that will allow a third gender option on birth certificates, so that people can change to non-binary. All that is to be required is that they obtain a certificate from their doctor or psychologist that confirms they have received treatment in relation to their sex or gender identity. It will be as easy as falling off a log.
Western Australia has become Australia's California. But are there going to be "millions" of people, changing their gender in this way? The 2016 Census counted 1,260 sex and/or gender diverse people in Australia, and that number since has not likely to have grown all that much. It will all be yet another symbolic gesture.
"Millions of Aussies will soon be able to change their gender on their birth certificate as one state gets set to usher in a massive change.
The change is taking place in Western Australia and comes weeks after Premier Roger Cook's government ruled out genderless birth certificates for newborns.
The new gender selection is part of an update to the Equal Opportunity Act which was announced in late 2022.
However, a year on and the changes are still being drafted.
The proposed changes will include a third gender option that will retrospectively allow a person to change their identity to non-binary.
The government has not disclosed what the minimum age will be for teenagers who want to be recognised as non-binary.
Teenagers will be required to gain parental consent to change their sex status on their document.
'WA's proposed reforms will take into account the extensive 2018 review and report by the WA Law Reform Commission,' a state government spokesperson told The West Australian.
'As announced at the time, the report recommended that the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998 be amended to provide for the gender classifications of 'male', 'female' and 'non-binary'.
They said having the third option is in line with the Commonwealth Government's approach to passports as well as being aligned with other states and territories.
It had also been announced the Gender Reassignment Board would be abolished.
The government instead introduced legislation for a more streamlined process for gender recognition in Western Australia.
The reforms mean people who want to update their sex or gender information on their birth certificate no longer have to show they have undertaken surgical or medical intervention.
They instead need to be able to provide a certificate from their doctor or psychologist that confirms they have received treatment in relation to their sex or gender identity.
Applications would be processed by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Sources in the government said they had thought about instigating the Tasmanian model which allows selecting gender on birth certificates to be optional.
But they said the government was too nervous to bring this in as it was too politically sensitive.
'There will be no change to the way in which a child's sex at birth is recorded or displayed on a birth certificate under any reform dealing with gender recognition," a spokesperson for Mr Quigley said.
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