Victoria to Waive $140 Fee for Changing Birth Certificates

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A sign indicating male and female facilities at Sydney Airport in Australia on Oct. 12, 2025. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch TimesTrans and “gender diverse” people born in Victoria will no longer have to pay a fee to change their official gender on their birth certificate after the government announced it would waive all fees including express postage costs.Victorians who identify as trans were first allowed to change their birth certificate gender in 2020, when the previous Andrews Labor government removed restrictions so that surgical or hormonal treatments were unnecessary for a status change.

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