Danielle Laidley among advocates to welcome bid to scrap WA Gender Reassignment Board

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Western Australians will no longer have to undergo medical or surgical reassignment in order to change their sex or gender, under the state government's proposed law reforms.

The state's Gender Reassignment Board, which manages applications to legally change a person's gender, would be abolished under the new laws.

Attorney-General John Quigley said the legislation would bring WA in line with the rest of Australia.

"This is not radical legislation … we're only bringing Western Australia out of the dark ages, up to a level of social reform that the rest of the country already respects and enjoys," he said.

Reforms will save lives, advocate says

Danielle Laidley is an AFL premiership winner, and one of the youngest senior coaches in the sport's history.

Laidley was outed as a trans woman by police, had her family turn their back on her, and survived the drugs she turned to as her life spiralled out of control.

"Today I can finally stand here, as a proud Western Australian and transgender woman," she said.

Laidley said the abolition of the Gender Reassignment Board was a step forward for WA.

"It was wrong for someone to sit there and tell me who I was. They haven't walked a mile in my shoes, they don't know how I feel," she said.

Transfolk of WA deputy chairperson Dylan Green said the reform was a significant step to creating a pathway for transgender and gender-diverse people to align legal documentation with their gender identity.

Dylan Green in glasses, a floral print shirt and dark suit jacket, speaking to the media.

"This will improve the lives, and save the lives, of many trans and gender diverse people in Western Australia," he said.

However, Mr Green noted the state government's proposal did not meet all of the recommendations made by the state's Law Reform Commission in 2018.

"We will be making further recommendations to the government regarding the regulations for this proposed bill, and advocating for further law reform," he said.

"We've seen in other states … certain requirements for clinical evidence have been removed for adults over the age of 18, so they use the self-determination model.

"That is what is widely considered best practice."

More change to come

Under the new laws, adults who have received counselling would be able to apply for a sex-change through the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Teenagers between 12 and 18-years-old would need the consent of both parents, and children under 12 would need approval from the WA Family Court.

The legislation also includes clauses prohibiting certain types of offenders from applying to change their gender.

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"You don't want someone who, for example, has been convicted of a nasty, aggravated sexual offence, then changing gender so they can access women-only areas," Mr Quigley said.

The proposed bill would also make the sex descriptors "non-binary" and "indeterminate/intersex" available, alongside "male" and "female".

The reforms would not change the existing procedure for registering the sex of a newborn. It also contains a requirement for the legislation to be reviewed after three years.

Mr Quigley has flagged the proposed legislation is only the first tranche of a multitude of changes to remove barriers for, and improve the lives of, the LGBTQIA+ community.

The WA government is chasing further reforms, including the development of a new Equal Opportunity Act and banning conversion therapy practices, which the attorney-general said would have to wait until after the 2025 state election.

"The federal government has announced the Australian Law Reform Commission findings, and the Prime Minister has come out and said on some contentious areas he is hopeful of getting bipartisan support," Mr Quigley said.

"I don't want to come in from left field and upset the applecart."

Reform follows landmark UK review

The proposed law reform comes after a landmark investigation into gender-affirming care in England, known as the Cass Review.

It recommended significantly limiting the prescription of medications, known as puberty blockers, for people aged under 18.

Federal health minister Mark Butler described the review's findings as "significant" but said the clinical treatment of transgender children in Australia was very different than in the UK.

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The WA Government is seeking to pass a new bill that will make life easier for transgender and gender-diverse West Aussies.

Under the bill, these West Aussies do not have to have medical procedures to change their gender or sex.

The bill, titled The Births, Deaths, Marriages Registration Amendment (Sex or Gender Changes ) Bill 2024 gets rid of the Gender Reassignment Act 2000 and The Gender Reassignment Board.

The bill will put in place “a new streamlined administration process” via the Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, focused on acknowledgement of gender and sex.

This at the moment is done by The Gender Reassignment Board, which will be ended.

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People will now be able to be recorded as ‘non-binary’ as well as ‘indeterminate/intersex’, ‘male’, and ‘female’.

Premier Roger Cook stated that the reforms support his Government’s “ongoing commitment to equality for all Western Australians”.

“This follows our recent commitment to developing WA’s first LGBTQIA+ inclusion strategy, which will promote inclusiveness and wellbeing and ensure LGBTQIA+ people experience full social and economic participation,” he said.

“Everyone deserves the respect and dignity of being recognised as themselves, to have their legal identity align with their lived identity.

“These important reforms will mean that trans and gender-diverse members of our community will no longer be required to undergo gender affirming surgery to change their gender on their birth certificate, removing the outdated barriers that deny people identity documents that accurately reflect their gender.”

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The State Government are putting in place Law Reform Commission of Western Australia recommendations from 2018.

To make the change, a person must have a statement from a psychologist or doctor saying that they have had counselling or other necessary treatment.

This is a test that the Commonwealth and other states use for passports.

For those looking to change their details who are still children, they must have consent from their parents of the Family Court.

There will be no changes made to how children who are just born will have their sex recorded.

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There will also be a review of the bill in three years, in which the WA community are able to give feedback.

The Attorney General, John Quigley, stated that WA is the only place in Australia in which “a Gender Reassignment Board determines a person’s application to change sex”.

“WA and New South Wales are the only Australian jurisdictions that require applicants to have undergone medical or surgical reassignment in order to change the sex on their birth certificate,” he said.

“This Bill abolishes the Gender Reassignment Board and introduces a new administrative application process for people seeking to change their sex or gender on their birth certificate.

“Instead, they will be able to apply directly to the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages with a statement by a medical practitioner and psychologist, certifying that they have received appropriate clinical treatment in relation to the person’s sex or gender.

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“The State Government remains 100 per cent committed to new equal opportunity legislation and we will continue to engage with stakeholders in relation to this important reform.”

The State Government are also seeking to prohibit conversion practices, and create an Equal Opportunity Act that is new.

They will look to planned Commonwealth Government reforms for this, and will put in place new laws after being re-elected in 2025.

They are also looking to create laws and reforms regarding surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology (ART).

The Premier stated that the State Government “has a significant legislative agenda, and is committed to finalising our second tranche of reforms in close consultation with the community”.

This week the bill will enter the WA Parliament, and will make WA “in line with” a majority of states.

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WA Liberals oppose reform to abolish Gender Reassignment Board

The WA Liberals have opposed abolishing the Gender Recognition Board, with several Labor members blasting leader Libby Mettam’s speech in parliament as “pathetic” and as proof she had caved in to “extreme right wing religious zealots”.

The reform will mean transgender people no longer have to front the board and can instead have their gender change handled by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — with a supporting statement from a doctor or psychologist, bringing WA into line with the rest of the country.

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Members of a nonpartisan state agency made up of local school board officials from across Washington are warning that conservative groups opposed to teaching about race and gender in schools are wielding increased influence within the organization’s ranks. 

An unknown number of Washington State School Directors’ Association members outlined their concerns in an anonymous letter released last month. In a response, Tim Garchow, executive director of the association, emphasized that the anonymous letter writers do not represent official communication from the association. 

“ Many people mistakenly think those messages are ‘from WSSDA,’” Garchow wrote in April. “Put simply, they are not.”

The letter contends that school board members and directors connected with Moms for Liberty and other conservative groups in Washington are “ actively working to undo recent progress around diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools; enact anti-LGBTQIA+ measures; and have a stated agenda to try to move public money to charter schools and school choice vouchers.”

“ This is an organized effort to use this state funded agency to serve a very narrow and harmful agenda that would set Washington’s public schools back 50 years,” the letter reads. It adds that the movement threatens to “de-legitimize WSSDA as a state advocacy organization.”

Washington Policy Center, one of the groups listed in the letter, said the letter “appears to be about an internal political disagreement within WSSDA, and has nothing to do with us.”

“ I don’t appreciate being called a racist by anonymous letter-writers,” said Liv Finne, director of the Center of Education at Washington Policy Center.

Once elected, each of Washington’s 1,477 school board members is legally required to be part of the Washington State School Directors’ Association . The group sets model policy for school districts statewide. It also acts as the lobbying voice for school boards in the Legislature, with members adopting positions that guide its advocacy.

Drayton Jackson, a former Central Kitsap school board director, said the group plays an important role.

“How do you know what’s happening in the state overall in education, unless you have an organization that can bring that together? That’s what WSSDA does,” he said. Jackson lost his race by a little over 300 votes in 2023 to an opponent aligned with Moms for Liberty

“Just picture the chaos if you didn’t have one voice trying to organize,” Jackson said, adding that he leaned on WSSDA’s guidance and resources when he was a school board director. 

The letter’s authors said conservative groups have gained influence within the association because of new rules that allow each district to have one vote. This means a district serving 100 students has the same power as one with 10,000 students. 

Small districts banded together to push through the change last September . Prior to then, voting power was weighted to provide larger districts greater clout. Critics of the previous system, like Finne , argued it gave a handful of big districts too much sway and that the new voting framework is fairer.

But the letter says this change is allowing conservative school board members to press ahead with attempts to revise the association’s positions to remove language promoting diversity and equity. Another proposal seeks to make “local control” the guiding principle of the organization’s advocacy platform in Olympia. 

These proposals could be considered at the association’s general assembly meeting this September.

“Who authored these proposals remains unanswered,” the letter says, “continuing the concerning trend that positions intended to guide WSSDA’s operations and advocacy are being created by an outside entity, rather than solely by elected school board directors, as is the objective and intent.”

If “local control” guides WSSDA’s legislative advocacy, the organization will not be able to effectively influence state law, supporters of the letter say, because many statewide policies are inherently at odds with local control. 

At least eight school districts in the state have already passed these proposals, according to the letter. It also notes that in several districts where these positions were introduced, student representatives were in “clear opposition.” 

“We’re removing what [students] want for their future,” Jackson said. “That’s dangerous. Because as soon as our students say ‘we don’t care about you anymore and what you say,’ now there’s no trust.”

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Anonymous members say changes in the group’s voting rules are allowing anti-lgbtqia+ measures and efforts to roll back diversity and equity initiatives to gain traction.

Members of a nonpartisan state agency made up of local school board officials from across Washington are warning that conservative groups opposed to teaching about race and gender in schools are wielding increased influence within the organization’s ranks, the Washington State Standard reports.

Members of a nonpartisan state agency made up of local school board officials from across Washington are warning that conservative groups opposed to teaching about race and gender in schools are wielding increased influence within the organization’s ranks.

An unknown number of Washington State School Directors’ Association members outlined their concerns in an anonymous letter released last month. In a response, Tim Garchow, executive director of the association, emphasized that the anonymous letter writers do not represent official communication from the association.

“Many people mistakenly think those messages are ‘from WSSDA,’”  Garchow wrote  in April. “Put simply, they are not.”

The letter contends that school board members and directors connected with Moms for Liberty and other conservative groups in Washington are “actively working to undo recent progress around diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools; enact anti-LGBTQIA+ measures; and have a stated agenda to try to move public money to charter schools and school choice vouchers.”

“This is an organized effort to use this state funded agency to serve a very narrow and harmful agenda that would set Washington’s public schools back 50 years,” the letter reads. It adds that the movement threatens to “de-legitimize WSSDA as a state advocacy organization.”

Washington Policy Center, one of the groups listed in the letter, said the letter “appears to be about an internal political disagreement within WSSDA, and has nothing to do with us.”

“I don’t appreciate being called a racist by anonymous letter-writers,” said Liv Finne, director of the Center of Education at Washington Policy Center.

Once elected, each of Washington’s 1,477 school board members is legally required to be part of the Washington State School Directors’ Association. The group sets model policy for school districts statewide. It also acts as the lobbying voice for school boards in the Legislature, with members adopting positions that guide its advocacy.

Drayton Jackson, a former Central Kitsap school board director, said the group plays an important role.

“How do you know what’s happening in the state overall in education, unless you have an organization that can bring that together? That’s what WSSDA does,” he said. Jackson lost his race by a little over 300 votes in 2023 to  an opponent aligned with Moms for Liberty

“Just picture the chaos if you didn’t have one voice trying to organize,” Jackson said, adding that he leaned on WSSDA’s guidance and resources when he was a school board director.

The letter’s authors said conservative groups have gained influence within the association because of new rules that allow each district to have one vote. This means a district serving 100 students has the same power as one with 10,000 students.

Small districts banded together to  push through the change last September . Prior to then, voting power was weighted to provide larger districts greater clout. Critics of the previous system,  like Finne , argued it gave a handful of big districts too much sway and that the new voting framework is fairer.

But the letter says this change is allowing conservative school board members to press ahead with attempts to revise the association’s positions to remove language promoting diversity and equity. Another proposal seeks to make “local control” the guiding principle of the organization’s advocacy platform in Olympia.

These proposals could be considered at the association’s general assembly meeting this September.

“Who  authored these proposals  remains unanswered,” the letter says, “continuing the concerning trend that positions intended to guide WSSDA’s operations and advocacy are being created by an outside entity, rather than solely by elected school board directors, as is the objective and intent.”

If “local control” guides WSSDA’s legislative advocacy, the organization will not be able to effectively influence state law, supporters of the letter say, because many statewide policies are inherently at odds with local control.

At least eight school districts in the state have already passed these proposals, according to the letter. It also notes that in several districts where these positions were introduced, student representatives were in “clear opposition.”

“We’re removing what [students] want for their future,” Jackson said. “That’s dangerous. Because as soon as our students say ‘we don’t care about you anymore and what you say,’ now there’s no trust.”

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If an administrative error (such as incorrect spelling) was made by the Registry, no fee is payable to correct the certificate and will be replaced, at no cost, upon return of the incorrect certificate.

If incorrect or incomplete information was supplied to the Registry at the time of registration, a formal application, supported by corroborating evidence, is required. A fee is payable and includes the issue of a replacement certificate.

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The biological father can be added to your child’s record if their birth was originally registered without these details. In certain circumstances evidence of paternity may be required such as a Family Court Order or DNA results that comply with the Family Law Act 1975 .

Partners from same sex relationships who consented to the Artificial Fertilisation procedure can also be added to their child’s birth record if not originally registered with these details.

These details may be added to your child’s birth record by completing the BDM101 Joint Application to Add Parentage Details in a Child’s Birth Registration and providing appropriate evidence-of-identity from both parents.

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If you were born in Western Australia, an application to register a change of sex can be made to the Perth Registry one month after the Gender Reassignment Board has issued your Recognition Certificate.

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  7. WA Government abolishes Gender Reassignment Board to streamline

    The Gender Reassignment Board has been scrapped amid the streamlining efforts, which will bring WA in line with most other Australian jurisdictions. It comes after transgender West Aussies sounded the alarm over a backlog of recognition certificates after the former Board president departed in September, as revealed by The West Australian ...

  8. PDF Lgbtiqa+ Changing Gender & Health Rights

    Page 2 of 5 1300 650 579 Website + Chat: legalaid.wa.gov.au Eligibility if you are an adult If you are 18 or older, you can apply directly to the Gender Reassignment Board for a gender recognition certificate.

  9. PDF Gender Reassignment Board of Western Australia

    The Gender Reassignment Board of Western Australia PERTH Level 6, 565 Hay Street GPO Box U1991 Telephone: 08 9219 3111 Email: [email protected] Western Australia 6000 PERTH Western Australia Facsimile: 08 9325 5099 Website: https://grb.justice.wa.gov.au. Hon John Quigley MLA . Attorney General . 11th Floor, Dumas House .

  10. LGBTIQA+ advocates welcome end of 'Gender Reassignment Board', urge WA

    17 April 2024 - WA and national LGBTIQA+ groups have today welcomed the introduction of a Bill abolishing the WA Gender Reassignment Board, but say that the long-awaited gender recognition reforms should go further to recognise all trans and gender diverse people. The WA Births, Deaths and Marriages Reform Amendment (Sex or Gender Changes) Bill 2024 will be introduced into WA Parliament ...

  11. WA to get rid of Gender Reassignment Board and creates new process for

    The Attorney General, John Quigley, stated that WA is the only place in Australia in which "a Gender Reassignment Board determines a person's application to change sex". "WA and New South Wales are the only Australian jurisdictions that require applicants to have undergone medical or surgical reassignment in order to change the sex on ...

  12. LGBTIQ+ groups disappointed as WA government fails on promise to scrap

    27 November 2023 - The WA Government has failed to deliver on its promise to scrap the Gender Reassignment Board, leaving lives in limbo and plans on hold, say national and local LGBTIQ+ groups.. The WA government pledged to abolish the board last December and remove the barriers faced by trans and gender diverse people who wish to update their birth certificate to accurately reflect their ...

  13. LGBTIQA+ rights groups welcome WA decision on gender board

    Western Australia's Attorney General John Quigley says the government will consult with stakeholders prior to introducing the legislation to repeal the gender board and introduce the new process. ... "Instead of going to a Gender Reassignment Board, a board the required proof of surgical intervention, or long term chemical intervintion ...

  14. Demand WA labor recognise my identity

    WA is the only state in Australia to still rely on a 'Gender Reassignment Board' (GRB) - a group of doctors and psychologists that decide if someone can legally change their gender. While the Government has committed to binning the board for good, a new pathway is needed for gender recognition across the state.

  15. PDF Gender Reassignment Act 2000

    16. 17. Version 02-a0-06. Published on www.legislation.wa.gov.au. As at 06 Dec 2013. Western Australia. Gender Reassignment Act 2000. An Act to allow the reassignment of gender and establish a Gender Reassignment Board with power to issue recognition certificates; to make consequential amendments to the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 and ...

  16. Gender Reassignment Appeal

    Gender Reassignment Appeal. Under the Gender Reassignment Act 2000, applications for certificates of Gender Reassignment (or recognition certificates) are made to the Executive Officer of the Gender Reassignment Board. SAT can review decisions made by the Gender Reassignment Board on applications for the issue of a recognition certificate. Last ...

  17. WA Liberals oppose reform to abolish Gender Reassignment Board

    The WA Liberals have opposed abolishing the Gender Recognition Board, with several Labor members blasting leader Libby Mettam's speech in parliament as "pathetic" and as proof she had caved in to "extreme right wing religious zealots". The reform will mean transgender people no longer have ...

  18. Department of Justice

    A person who has undergone gender reassignment and wishes to have their new gender legally recognised can apply to the Gender Reassignment Board (link is external) for a recognition certificate. Once this application is successful, a person, who was born in Western Australia, can apply to amend their birth certificate to show their new gender ...

  19. Is WA's school board association seeing a conservative takeover?

    Once elected, each of Washington's 1,477 school board members is legally required to be part of the Washington State School Directors' Association. The group sets model policy for school districts statewide. It also acts as the lobbying voice for school boards in the Legislature, with members adopting positions that guide its advocacy.

  20. Is Washington's school board association seeing a conservative takeover

    Members of a nonpartisan state agency made up of local school board officials from across Washington are warning that conservative groups opposed to teaching about race and gender in schools are ...

  21. Correct or amend a birth, death or marriage certificate

    The Gender Reassignment Board deal with matters relating to a person's changed gender under the Gender Reassignment Act 2000. Recognition certificates are issued by the Gender Reassignment Board.. If you were born in Western Australia, an application to register a change of sex can be made to the Perth Registry one month after the Gender Reassignment Board has issued your Recognition Certificate.

  22. Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace

    Based on these facts, the sex-based harassment experienced by Velma, which must be viewed in the context of her vulnerability as a survivor of dating violence, is sufficiently severe or pervasive to create an objectively hostile work environment. Example 46: Harassment Based on Gender Identity Creates an Objectively Hostile Work Environment.