Transgender
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 645820 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 23/08/2018 |
Definition: | A general term for a person whose gender identity is different to their sex at birth. A trans person may take steps to live in their nominated sex with or without health intervention(s). |
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 |
Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables (Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012). Viewed 26 July 2016. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Transgender Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Superseded 23/08/2018 |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Person—transgender indicator Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 Person—transgender indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 Prisoner health NBEDS 2018 Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 Prisoner health NBEDS 2022 Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 Transgender indicator Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 |