ࡱ> %` +bjbj"x"x JF@@#Jz z z z z z z  rrr844 Lj4y{L(}}}}7}`+2`+$h|z yyz z y"y"y"z z {y"}y"y"rz z y #urykuL{0ud 6yyz yZI@y"44U!$ r r z z z z z z  YOUR REF: OUR REF:AHRC.Consultation.Nov2010 26 November 2010 The Hon. Catherine Branson QC The President of the 鱨վ and Human Rights Commissioner BY EMAIL:  HYPERLINK "mailto:lgbti@humanrights.gov.au" lgbti@humanrights.gov.au Dear Madam President, RE: CONSULTATION CONCERNING FEDERAL ANTI-DISCRIMATION LAW REFORM AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES FOR AUSTRALIANS WHO EXPERIENCE DIVERSITY IN SEXUALITY, SEXUAL FORMATION AND GENDER EXPRESSION I refer to the above and set out below my comments in answer to the questions posed on your website for the purposes of this Consultation. What benefit would there be in federal anti-discrimination laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity? Discrimination across the normal range of prohibited circumstances should be made illegal throughout the Commonwealth when it takes place due to a person's (any person's) experience of diversity in sexual formation or gender expression. These aspects of human manifestation and behaviour are as intrinsic to Australians and as unchangeable in an individual as standard sexual formation, male or female, and the other fundamental aspects of human being that are presently the subject of Federal Anti-discrimination protection. Arguably, certain intersexual conditions, including transsexualism, are included within federal disability protection and international human rights instruments adopted by Australia (eg UNROC). It makes good legal, common and humane sense that there be a uniformity of laws dealing with these fundamental aspects of human diversity across the Commonwealth. What benefit would there be in federal law prohibiting vilification and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity? See comments for 1 above. Can you provide examples of situations where federal protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or sex and/or gender identity are needed because state and territory laws do not provide adequate protections? See paragraph 10 below Have you experienced discrimination because of your sexual orientation or sex and/or gender identity for which there is no legal protection? Yes. Have you experienced vilification or harassment because of your sexual orientation or sex and/or gender identity for which there is no legal protection? Not dealt with. What terminology should be used in federal anti-discrimination legislation if protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is to be included? Not dealt with. There needs to be a clear distinction mad between issues of discrimination and human rights that affects people who experience diversity in respect of their sexuality, their sexual formation and their gender expression if Australians who experience each very distinct aspect of human difference or diversity are to have their distinct legal and human rights needs adequately recognised and addressed. What terminology should be used in federal anti-discrimination legislation if protection from discrimination on the basis of sex and/or gender identity is to be included? I use the above descriptor, namely "diversity in sexual formation or expression" to avoid the controversy and potential for error associated with the terms "transgender", "transsexual/ism" and "intersex". For example, many people who experience transsexualism consider that they experience an intersex condition; taking the brain or mind into account as part of the body. This is in accord too with Australian Common Law (Re Kevin). Such people do not identify as "trans-gender" or "trans". Thus, "Sex and/or Gender Identity", when used collectively, is not a better or more reasonable or practicable basis for an anti-discrimination regime than are the the terms "transgender", "transsexual/ism" and "intersex". *What are the advantages or disadvantages of the terms used in state and territory laws, including: gender identity; chosen gender; gender history; a gender reassigned person; or a recognised transgender person; or transexuality? There are presently a conflicting and confusing range of use of outdated, vague, misleading and discriminating terminology used by different Sates and Territories. See other comments on terminology. *Should protection from discrimination be provided if a person has or appears to have the characteristics of any gender? All Australians of all ages should be freely express gender without suffering harmful discrimination. Here it is "gender expression" that is the key factor requiring protection from discrimination. Such protection would include transgender and queer gender expression. What terminology should be used to ensure that people who identify as intersex are protected from discrimination in federal law? Should the term intersex be used? Should protection from discrimination on the basis of sex include people who are of indeterminate sex? The term "diversity in sexual formation" should be used to describe all the many aspects of intersexual formation experienced; including transsexualism. As both the terms "intersex" and "indeterminate sex" are as politicised and contested as "transsexualism" and "trans/pan-gender", neither should be used. There is no "third space" in Australian law that a third legal sex could safely occupy. All Australians of all ages should be free to experience diversity in their sexual formation, and to undergo therapeutic medical treatment to have the physical manifestations and social implications of that diversity ameliorated without suffering harmful discrimination. Here the characteristic or aspect of a person to be protected from discrimination is the treatment of the person differently and adversely because of they are identified as experiencing or as having experienced "diversity or difference in sexual formation"; defined broadly to include transsexualism as well as the other diverse manifestations of intersex. What special measures designed to benefit specific groups based on sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity should be allowed by federal anti-discrimination law? See paragraph 10 below and the following references and the information and papers by me available there:  HYPERLINK "http://www.wallbanks.com" http://www.wallbanks.com  HYPERLINK "http://www.truecolours.org.au/" http://www.truecolours.org.au/ What other actions would you like to see the Australian Government take to better protect and promote the rights of LGBTI people in Australia? There needs to be a definitive recognition that for people who experience some intersex conditions, including transsexualism, medical treatment is not an option, but rather a critical necessity. Medicare benefits and other formal government assisted medical benefits should be allowed for Sex Affirmation Treatment. Australians under 18 years who experience intersex conditions, including transsexualism, should be able to access time sensitive and life critical therapeutic medical treatment to alleviate their often life-threatening personal and cultural conflict occasioned by their condition as recommended by their medical practitioners and supported by their parents - without first having to obtain an Order of the Family Court of Australia. Australian adolescents are being denied timely access to critical medical treatment - with life-threatening and degrading consequences - and families are in distress - because of the affects of the current erroneous interpretation of Marion's Case, expressed in the cases of Re A and Re Alex, which incorrectly extended the definition of "Special Medical Procedure" to therapeutic medical treatment for young people who experienced intersex conditions; including transsexualism. People who affirm a sex different to that to which they were first assigned, for whatever reasons, who would otherwise qualify to have their legal sex reassigned, should be abe to do so to bring their legal sex into sensible conformity with their lived and physically affirmed sex without first having to divorce their spouse. Australians who can evidence a diagnosis of an intersexual condition, including transsexualism, or who are under 18 years of age can otherwise evidence a clear legal, medical or financial incapacity or unacceptable risk in respect of Sex Affirmation Treatment (including genital reassignment surgery or any other aspect of that medical treatment), should be entitled to have their legal sex reassigned and to thereby unconditionally acquire the full legal rights of their affirmed sex. Thank you for the opportunity to take part in this important consultation. 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