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A Transsexual woman has lost a Federal Court appeal to have her birth certificate changed to alter her sex from male to female.
The Victorian woman, referred to as AB, completed surgery to alter her sexual organs to become a female in April 2002.
She applied in July 2005 to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages to have her sex changed from male to female on her birth certificate.
But her request was rejected on the grounds she was married.
Under Victorian law, a person can legally have the sex recorded on their birth registration altered, but the alteration cannot be made after marriage.