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Federal legislation in Australia is empathetic and understanding of men (identified female at birth) who require legal recognition of their innate-sex. Australia is at the forefront of understanding the legal problems of men who were identified as the opposite-sex at birth. The law in Australia protects your rights, your legal birth certificate, passports, marriage and Medicare.

Australian legislation Australian laws and transition Anti-discrimination Anti-discrimination laws in Australia Australian Tax Office (ATO) Correcting your sex at the ATO Birth certificate (legal sex) Correcting your birth certificate Do I have to have genital reconstructive surgery to correct my birth certificate? Name change Name change in Australia Passport (Australian) Getting a male passport Marriage Getting married in Australia About the reKevin decisions Criteria established in reKevin Medicare Correcting your sex at Medicare 640kb Medicare (2008)		Resources Can we have children? List of Anti-Discrimination/Equal Opportunity Offices List of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries State/Territory specific information Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia   "It is reasonable to require from the law that it makes provision for those rare individuals in whom the formation of gender identity has not followed the course otherwise so reliably prognosticated by the external genitalia." — (1993) Prof. Louis Gooren.
Questions Can I still get a male birth certificate if I don't want to have a hysterectomy? My partner was born overseas - can we get married? Our celebrant/priest/pastor etc won't marry us - what can we do? We look like an opposite-sex couple, can we get legally married?
Further reading 116kb Human rights and diversity in sexual formation and expression Sex and gender must be treated differently ReKevin in perspective, Deakin Law Review, 22 [2003] FamCA 94 (‘Re Kevin-Full Court’), Deakin Law Review, 22 Twisting The Knife: Discrimination in the Law, Deakin Law Review, 22 Victoria’s Justice Statement: Rights or Rhetoric? [Or…‘There’s No Show Without Punch!, Murdoch University eLaw Journal Understanding Australia’s Human Rights Obligations in Relation to Transsexual: Privacy and Marriage in the Australian Context, Deakin Law Review, 22

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