SSONet (http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=6968)
by Cara Davis
A few years earlier, in 1996, Shaw amended the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 to include discrimination on transgender grounds and amended the Births Deaths and Marriages Act 1995 to provide legal recognition of post-operative transgender persons.
Transgender status was a question of gender identity, Shaw said in Parliament in 1996, and not sexual preference.