SUBMISSION CONCERNING THE ALTERATION OF SEX DESCRIPTION AND SEX STATUS BILL B37 – 2003
Sally Gross
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Introduction
Intersexuality Explained
Why the issue is of personal concern to me
Consequences of the emphasis on sex organs for the intersexed
Remedies
"(1) Any person whose sex organs have been altered by surgical or medical treatment or by evolvement through natural development resulting in a sex change, or any person who is intersexed, may apply to the Director-General …"
"(2) (c) in every case in which sex organs have been altered resulting in a sex change, be accompanied by a report …"
"(2) (d) in the case of a person who is intersexed, be accompanied by medical reports corroborating that the applicant is intersexed;
"(2) (e) in the case of a person who is intersexed, be accompanied by reports from a qualified psychologist or social worker corroborating that the applicant is living and has lived stably and satisfactorily, for an unbroken period of at least two years, in the gender-role corresponding to the sex description under which he or she seeks to be registered."