Western Australia to Allow People to Legally Change Their Gender Without Medical Surgery

A letter from a medical practitioner will be all it takes for a person to legally change their gender in Western Australia (WA) as the state moves to introduce a new bill for gender recognition. The current law requires a person to undergo surgical reassignment and provide proof to the Gender Reassignment Board before being able to register a change of gender. However, the centre-left Labor government said it would scrap the Gender Reassignment Board and introduce through the Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages a “new streamlined administrative process for sex and gender recognition.” Under the proposed changes, individuals will only need a statement from a medical practitioner and psychologist certifying that they have “received appropriate clinical treatment in relation to the person’s sex or gender,” the government said....