SSONet.com.au – by Cara Davis
Grace Abrams and Fiona Power have become the first legally recognised same-sex couple in Australia.
The Federal Government was last week forced to formally acknowledge the marriage, following a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to grant a female passport to Abrams, a post-operative trans woman.
Abrams had married her long-term female partner using her male birth certificate before undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2005.
On her return to Australia, she was denied a passport in her new gender on the basis that she was married to a woman.