New York City's Board of Health unexpectedly withdrew a proposal yesterday that would have allowed people to alter the sex on their birth certificates without sex-change surgery.
There was the start of a groundbreaking practice to issue death certificates without bodies, eliminating a source of pain for grieving families.
Victoria is also proposing to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates without having to undergo reassignment surgery, an idea proving challenging, especially to some feminists.
PAGE D1 New York Drops Gender Plan A plan to let people alter their sex on birth certificates without sex-change surgery was dropped by the city's Board of Health.
This month South Australia became the first state to allow transgender people to alter their sex on their birth certificates without gender reassignment surgery or the need for a court approval – a complete separation of biological sex and gender identity.
"UK air charter companies pay a lot of money to the government for air operator certificates, without which they can't run commercial air taxi operations," said Mr Robinson.
