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Title: New Zealand: Transgender report demands law change
Post by: Natasha on January 17, 2008, 05:46:06 PM
New Zealand: Transgender report demands law change

http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_5479.php
By GayNZ.com News Staff
01/18/2008

The extensive and thought to be world-first inquiry into the lives of transgender New Zealanders found that the majority of trans people are unable to assert their citizenship by changing the sex on their birth certificate and passport so it reflects their gender identity. This added to the burden of discrimination many transgender people faced.