Gender Reassignment Act 2000 (WA)

Western Australia

This Act was repealed by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Sex or Gender Changes) Act 2024 s. 20(1) (No. 31 of 2024) on 30 May 2025 (see s. 2(b) and SL 2025/80 cl. 2)

Western Australia

Gender Reassignment Act 2000

An Act to allow the reassignment of gender and establish a Gender Reassignment Board with power to issue recognition certificates; to make consequential amendments to the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 and the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998; to amend the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 1 to promote equality of opportunity, and provide remedies in respect of discrimination, on gender history grounds in certain cases; and for connected purposes.

[Long title amended: No. 74 of 2003 s. 61(2).]

This Act may be cited as the Gender Reassignment Act 2000.

The provisions of this Act come into operation on such day as is, or days as are respectively, fixed by proclamation.

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

adultmeans a person of or above the age of 18 years;

Boardmeans the Gender Reassignment Board of Western Australia established by section 5;

child means a person under the age of 18 years;

corresponding lawmeans —

• (a)

  a law of another State or of a Territory; or

• (b)

  a law of another country,

declared by the regulations to be a corresponding law;

equivalent certificate means a certificate issued under a corresponding law that corresponds to a recognition certificate issued under this Act;

gender characteristics means the physical characteristics by virtue of which a person is identified as male or female;

medical practitioner means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the medical profession;

president means the president of the Board;

reassignment procedure means a medical or surgical procedure (or a combination of such procedures) to alter the genitals and other gender characteristics of a person, identified by a birth certificate as male or female, so that the person will be identified as a person of the opposite sex and includes, in relation to a child, any such procedure (or combination of procedures) to correct or eliminate ambiguities in the child’s gender characteristics;

recognition certificate means a certificate issued under this Act that identifies a person who has undergone a reassignment procedure as being of the sex to which the person has been reassigned;

Registrar means the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, referred to in section 5 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998.

[Section 3 amended: No. 74 of 2003 s. 61(3); No. 22 of 2008 Sch. 3 cl. 21; No. 35 of 2010 s. 67.]

This Act binds the Crown.

• (1)

  A board called the Gender Reassignment Board…