An average of three men a day in NSW have spent just $73 to change gender to female on their birth certificates since new laws were introduced less than a year ago — making changing gender a simple admin process.
A total of 1035 men have swapped gender under the new equality laws drafted by Independent MP Alex Greenwich and brought in by the Minns government last July.
Figures obtained exclusively by The Saturday Telegraph also show 505 women have changed gender on their birth certificates to male, and 80 children have applied to change their gender.
People can apply online to Service NSW to change the gender on their birth certificate simply by filling in a statutory declaration, providing a signed statement of support from a friend, and paying a $73 fee.
No medical procedure is required, and it is cheaper and easier than registering a car from interstate. Before new laws were introduced in NSW last year, you could only change your gender on your birth certificate if you had undergone surgery.
Since new laws were passed on July 1, 2025 to the end of May 2026 there have been 1770 applications to record a change of gender. These included 64 males and 83 females registering as non-binary, and two people registered under a different and unexplained descriptor.
In May this year Corrective Services NSW was forced to bring in tough new rules allowing prison guards to decide where transgender inmates were jailed. Guards were told to disregard birth certificates and “gender identity” and decide the gender directly based on prison security.
That came after Corrections Victoria paid a secret settlement to a female inmate assaulted by a transgender prisoner serving a sentence for murder in a women’s prison.
Source: Chick, chick, boom! Three men a day change sex at Service NSW | Daily Telegraph