The enacting of legislation allowing people to remove their gender from birth certificates has received mixed reactions from Tasmanians.
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Transforming Tasmania's Martine Delaney said aside from a similar law enacted in Malta, no other jurisdiction had achieved these kinds of laws in the face of government opposition.
"Your identity documents are initially based on your birth certificate and for any trans or gender diverse person they have not, until this time, been able to get a birth certificate that accurately reflected who they were," Ms Delaney said.
The Tasmanian Coalition for Kids called on the state government to lay out how they would repeal the "radical" new laws.
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Spokesperson Ben Smith said the laws were out of step with community sentiment, and in addition have a number of major unintended consequences.
"This has serious flow-on consequences, for example how will organisations who operate single-sex schools, including the government themselves ... manage this change?" Mr Smith said.
Ms Delaney said there had been an enormous amount of misinformation spread about the legislation and it wouldn't impact gender-based bodies such as women's health services or prisons which have had policies around gender diverse people for years.
Attorney-General Elise Archer said any kind of reform would need consideration on what the ramifications might be.
"We'll be watching this space carefully to see if there are difficulties being raised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that continue to be raised, we'll be watching this space to see if anything needs to be rectified or indeed repealed," Ms Archer said.
Labor leader Rebecca White said "this is a change that will affect very few people in our state, but for the it does affect, it will improve their lives in a very positive way".
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