Hot Topic / CultureAccording to 'gender-critical' feminists, the debate around transgender rights has been focused around the gains of the transgender community, and not around the rights and entitlements that women have lost.
Recent changes to the laws in Victoria and Tasmania have brought into stark relief current discourses around sex and gender.
Both states have allowed transgender citizens the right to nominate the sex recorded on their birth certificates without having to go through gender reassignment surgery, as had previously been the case.
In this, we are following many liberal Western countries, namely Canada and England.
Sydney-based freelance journalist
Margot Saville practised as a lawyer for one year before becoming a journalist in 1987. She has worked at The Australian newspaper, ABC Television, the Nine Network and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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