WA one step forward, two steps back
Andie Noonan
Monday, 7 September 2009
http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2009/09/07/wa-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/15813Two Western Australian (female-to-male) trans men have vowed to fight a state Government appeal against a recent State Administrative Tribunal decision to allow legal gender recognition without surgery.
The office of WA Attorney-General Christian Porter indicated the Government would appeal the Tribunal decision that surgery should not be the definitive factor in determining a person's official gender when interpreting the state's Gender Reassignment Act.
The Tribunal decision, handed down late last month, found the two men should be granted legal recognition as men, despite not having a hysterectomy, as both had bilateral mastectomies, were infertile on testosterone treatment and "presented as, and appeared to be, males".
