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The bill will allow trans and gender diverse Victorians far more easily alter the sex on their birth certificate.

As part of the new laws, couples can choose between “parent 1” and “parent 2”, “mother” and “mother”, “father” and “father”, or “mother” and “father” on the birth certificate of their newborn.

Female co-parents who conceive a child through donor sperm at home or in a clinic will now both be recognised on the child’s birth certificate, without the need to have lived together for a minimum of three years. This is the first in a number of South Australian LGBTI law reforms to be addressed in the upcoming year.