It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex on their birth certificate. Legislation to achieve this was introduced into the Queensland Parliament in December of 2022.

New South Wales still requires reassignment surgery before the paperwork can be altered.

But overall, it is becoming very easy in Australia for a man to say he is a woman, or a woman to say she is a man.

The sex you were born – either male or female – is becoming increasingly irrelevant.