SAGE Australian Passports

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By signing the recent passport amendment legislation you have stopped many of the Australiaвs trans community from obtaining a passport in the gender in which they live, unless they have had genital surgery, placing them in danger if they travel abroad.

This means that transsexual people in transition would have to travel aboard with a passport of the opposite gender to which they are presenting or with a Document of Identity which draws attention to them. This even applies to someone travelling overseas for the express purpose of completing their transsexual surgery. Some intersex, transsexual or transsexed people cannot have any surgery for medical reasons including heart condition, liver and kidney problems, cancer or AIDS or simply not being able to afford treatment.

Transgender people who do not want to have genital surgery will also now have to travel on a passport which will read the opposite sex and gender to which they present. These people will now not be able to travel outside Australia safely and anonymously, making them susceptible to abuse, violence, and discrimination abroad.

We call upon the Australian Government and Minister for Foreign Affairs to review the policies of the passport office bringing them in line with humane principles for treating all Australian citizens with equal validity. Some people identify as male and some of female but there are many people who are neither physically of socially part of the polarity separatism. Many transpeople are part of the interrex spectrum but also many transgender people live as one gender but have genitals that may be different from how they present. Policies should be changed to:

1. Give passports to preoperative or non operative transsexuals or transexed people, who have not had genital surgery, in the gender in which they live, for unrestricted travel.
2. Allow people who were married before transition to remain married and get a passport in their new gender presentation.
3. Give passports to transgender people in the gender in which they live for unrestricted travel.
4 Allow an individual, who requires it, to have no sex or gender stated on their passport.

583 Signatures

  • Denise V
    • Comments
    • Restore our dignity, please!
    • Address and Zip code
    • Boston, MA USA
  • Dr Stephen K
  • Alicia P
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2027
  • Monika D
  • Maria Z
  • Carrie D
    • Address and Zip code
    • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
  • Tanya
  • Karl L
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2606
  • Leila O
    • Comments
    • This is outrageous. Further targeting of minorities by the Australian government.
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    • В
  • Jade S
    • Comments
    • Please give me my basic right to be the gender I truly am.
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2050
  • Vanessa Edwards F
    • Comments
    • Following the worst examples of US bigotry. Way to show the knee-jerk prejudice and pander to Bush. Just another lap poodle you are....
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    • 13130 Creekside Houston TX 77082
  • Mardi J
  • Ishai M
  • Elian A
    • Address and Zip code
    • 30 Edward St, Darlington, 2008
  • Devin C
  • Annaliese S
    • Comments
    • this makes me embarrased to be aussie, why is europe and canada ahead and we are similar to some 3rd world tin pot counrty on these issues
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2560
  • Lisa S
    • Address and Zip code
    • Central Coast, Australia
  • Rhianna B
    • Comments
    • Please reconsider your position in this matter
    • Address and Zip code
    • Ballina, NSW, 2478
  • Christine D
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2548
  • Diana Lee N
  • Natalie H
  • D. N
  • Filip D
  • lauren r
  • John A
    • Comments
    • yet another international embarrassment
    • Address and Zip code
    • Narrandera NSW
  • Zac B
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    • В
    • Address and Zip code
    • Marrickville, NSW
  • David T
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2145
  • paige m
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    • 2042
  • Erin G
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    • 2027
  • Emma B
    • Comments
    • this is very important
    • Address and Zip code
    • Australia, NSW 2204
  • Dr Alison M
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    • This change of law is highly undemocratic
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    • В
  • Jay T. O
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    • Give it Up Pollies... and get a Clue!
    • Address and Zip code
    • 2500
  • Cerise H
    • Comments
    • A truly cretinous, invidious piece of legislation. Grossly offensive, highly embarrassing.
    • Address and Zip code
    • 3065
  • jo f
    • Comments
    • stop this underhanded discrimination
  • Amellia
  • Alex
  • Sebastian D
    • Comments
    • This should never have been passed...
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    • В
  • Ash B
  • Monique D
    • Address and Zip code
    • Guildford NSW 2161
  • Chantelle
    • Comments
    • Get with the program, this law is DISCRIMINATORY!!
  • Lizzie e
  • Dion K
    • Address and Zip code
    • 3070
  • Kathleen G
    • Address and Zip code
    • PO Box 3603Weston Creek ACT
  • elke g
    • Comments
    • В
    • Address and Zip code
    • В
  • Daniel Walter R
    • Comments
    • I fail to understand why passports need a gender field at all.
    • Address and Zip code
    • Maryland, United States of America
  • Casey Liam V
  • blanchard
  • kirsten u
    • Comments
    • this law is criminal
    • Address and Zip code
    • 5000
  • Megan C
  • Rebecca D
    • Comments
    • Equal rights for all regardless of gender
    • Address and Zip code
    • Reservoir 3073