Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Now the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has introduced new guidelines so that instead of surgery, all that is needed is a letter of support from a medical practitioner.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The changes mean Australians can identify their sex of choice and select Male, Female or X.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Labor Senator Louise Pratt says international travel can be downright dangerous for people whose appearance does not match the gender listed on their passport.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“There have been very many cases of people being detained at airports by immigration in foreign countries simply because their passports don’t reflect what they look like,” she said.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“It’s very distressing, highly inconvenient and frankly sometimes dangerous.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Senator Pratt is the first member of Federal Parliament to have a transgendered partner, who was born female but has transitioned to male.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“This is really pleasing for people like him. It now means we can travel overseas without any problems.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the past, Australians could only change their gender on their passports if they had had a sex change operation or were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}