PinkNews.co.uk – Alex Donald
An Australian transsexual has lost a Federal Court appeal to have her birth certificate changed to alter her sex from male to female.
The woman, referred to as AB, completed her surgery to become female in April 2002.
AB, from Victoria, appealed to state’s Federal Court in July 2005 to have her birth certificate changed from male to female.
The south-eastern state of Victoria?s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages subsequently rejected her request on the grounds that she was married leading to a massive legal dispute that set commonwealth law against Victorian law.