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Transgender Australians win landmark court case

Started by SandraJane, October 06, 2011, 08:37:08 AM

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Transgender Australians win landmark court case

Australia's highest court rules transgender pair can be legally recognised as men despite not completing sex-change surgeries

    Associated Press
    guardian.co.uk, Thursday 6 October 2011 03.54 EDT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/transgender-australians-win-court-case




Two transgender people have won an appeal in Australia's highest court giving them legal recognition as men despite not completing sex-change surgeries.

Transgender and intersex organisations praised the ruling as a precedent that would spare others from having to undergo medically unnecessary surgery to have their chosen gender recognised.
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