South Australia has passed the
South
Australian Sexual Reassignment Act
1988 to ‘allow the
reassignment of sexual identity, to regulate the
performance of reassignment procedures, and for
other purposes.’
In South Australia where a person has had a
reassignment procedure, application may be made
by the person to an authorised magistrate for
the issue of a Recognition Certificate.
An authorised South Australian magistrate may
issue a Recognition Certificate for an adult if
either
- the person was born in, or had a
reassignment procedure carried out in South
Australia, and
- the magistrate is satisfied the person
believes that his or her true sex is the sex
to which the person has been reassigned
and
- has adopted the lifestyle and
- has the sexual characteristics of a
person of the sex to which the person has
been reassigned, and
- has received proper counselling in
relation to his/her sexual identity.
A South Australian Recognition Certificate
identifies a person who has undergone a
reassignment procedure as being of the legal sex
stated on the certificate and allows a person
born either in South Australia, interstate or
overseas to be recognised in their new gender
without any change being made to their birth
certificate.
A person issued with a Recognition
Certificate (or an equivalent) and born in South
Australia, can make an application a minimum one
month after it has been issued, to the Births,
Deaths and Marriages Registration Office in
South Australia to have the legal sex altered on
their birth certificate.
For more information
—
Office of Consumer and Business
Affairs
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Office
Level 2, Chesser House, 91-97 Grenfell
Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Telephone (08) 8204 9599 (general
enquiries) or
Country callers 131 882
Website www.ocba.sa.gov.au/bdm
South Australia Legal Information
