Transgender
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 398610 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health!, Superseded 23/08/2018 |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Transgender Health!, Standard 23/08/2018 |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Person—transgender indicator Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health!, Standard 25/08/2011 Person—transgender indicator, code N Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 Person—transgender indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 Prisoner health NBEDS Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 |
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