This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make the definitions of sex and gender consistent in all policies and decisions.
Sex and gender is being used interchangeably between and within definitions and policies.
This weakens integrity of any policies made and causes overlap, confusion and tension between groups and their own unique legal rights and protect these groups.
Consistency will create more fairness.
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I call for the government to recognise that there are inconsistencies between sex and gender in policies and decision making.
GRC's are based on gender. Getting a birth certificate to change sex contradicts the definition of sex and further confuses the differences.
I suggest adding a gender section to a new birth certificate to recognise that people want to be treated as their gender, but not altering the sex since this is unmutable.
Consistency will help reinforce the integrity of rights.
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Why was this petition rejected?
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