Transgender report demands law change

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Transgender report demands law change
Posted in: New Zealand Daily News
By GayNZ.com News Staff - 18th January 2008

The Human Rights Commission is calling for a simple amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act that would allow trans people to obtain birth certificates and passports that reflect their gender identity and sex.

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The Commission's Transgender Inquiry report entitled To Be Who I Am - released this week - recommends that an amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1995 would make it clear that a person who had taken "decisive steps to live fully and permanently in the gender identity of the nominated sex" could be issued a document that accurately recorded their sex.