Trans teen calls on Queensland Government to change law around birth certificates

When 18-year-old transgender teen Lorelei Tuxworth started the process of updating her name and birth certificate to reflect her identity, she didn’t expect to get a knockback.

Her parents helped her submit the legal forms, and when her new birth certificate arrived, they were disappointed to find her gender was the same as before.

“I only got my name changed over, and we found out that to get the gender changed over, you have to have [gender affirmation] surgery,” she…