Transgender
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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| METEOR identifier: | 398610 |
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| Definition: | A transgender person is a person who: (a) identifies as a member of a different sex by living, or seeking to live, as a member of that sex; or (b) has identified as a member of a different sex by living as a member of that sex; whether or not the person is a recognised transgender person. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | A person’s sex may change during their lifetime as a result of surgical procedures known alternatively as sex change, gender reassignment, transsexual surgery, transgender reassignment or sexual reassignment. Throughout this process, which may be over a considerable period of time, sex could be recorded as either male or female. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | Australian Capital Territory Legislation (Gay, Lesbian and Transgender) Amendment Act 2003 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Transgender
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| Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Person—transgender indicator
Person—transgender indicator, code N
Person—transgender indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N
Prisoner health NBEDS
Transgender indicator
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