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Title: Appeal denies transsexuals gender change
Post by: Shana A on September 02, 2010, 07:44:27 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 02, 2010, 07:44:27 AM
Appeal denies transsexuals gender change
AMANDA BANKS Legal Affairs Editor, The West Australian September 2, 2010, 11:20 am
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/7869676/appeal-denies-transsexuals-gender-change/ (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/7869676/appeal-denies-transsexuals-gender-change/)
Attorney General Christian Porter has won a landmark appeal which will strip two female-to-male transsexuals of the right to be legally recognised as men.
A majority Court of Appeal decision handed down this morning over-ruled a State Administrative Tribunal ruling that the two transsexuals, whose identities have been suppressed, could be issued with certificates which reassigned their gender to males.
The SAT decision had overturned a Gender Reassignment Board ruling which refused the change of gender.