Our gender is not for others to decide. A bill for trans people to self identify is a good start | Simona Castricum

Legislating for gender-diverse Victorians to self-nominate would be a major leap forward in life chances

When the Victorian Andrews Labor government introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday that would give transgender, intersex and non-binary people the right to self-nominate the sex and gender identification on their birth certificate, I greeted this news with equal parts excitement and caution.

As a transgender Victorian, our community have been here before: in 2016 a bill to reform legislation around gender identity on birth certificates was introduced by Labor but denied by the Liberal National Coalition.

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