good post.
In a press statement headed Shock at Minister decision to defer birth certificate change, trans community organisations have expressed shock at Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin’s decision to defer legislative proposals to introduce an administrative process for changing gender markers on birth certificates.
Ahi Wi-Hongi, National Coordinator of the transgender organisation Gender Minorities Aotearoa, said this issue is not new.
“It is over 11 years since the Human Rights Commission’s Transgender Inquiry called for a simpler process.”
It might surprise Wi-Hongi to learn there was shock in the general community when the public learned what MPs on a select committee had done. They had endorsed proposals not only to allow public records to be changed at the behest of an individual who wanted the change, but to allow these changes to be made without any check on the validity of or justification for an applicant’s request for change.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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