Statutes – Construction - Gender reassignment - Applications for recognition certificates as males - Reassignment procedures undertaken to alter genitals and gender characteristics - Appellants adopted lifestyle and have physical appearance of males - Retain some female sexual organs - Whether requirement that person have "the physical characteristics by virtue of which a person is identified as male or female" met - Whether adverse social consequences or community standards and expectations permissible considerations.
Words and phrases – "gender", "gender characteristics", "physical characteristics by virtue of which a person is identified", "reassignment procedure", "recognition certificate", "transsexual".
Gender Reassignment Act 2000 (WA) – ss 14(1), 15(1).
Judgment date
Case number
P15/2011
P16/2011
Before
French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Kiefel, Bell JJ
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