The NSW cabinet will on Monday consider a scaled-back equality bill after Sydney MP Alex Greenwich agreed to remove key sticking points widely opposed by church groups.
However, allowing transgender people to change their birth certificates without undergoing reaffirming surgery and parentage orders for families who have had children through overseas commercial surrogacy will remain central to the bill.
The new version of Greenwich’s bill is still likely to cause bitter division, particularly in the Liberal Party, which will be forced to form a position on it ahead of three byelections next Saturday.
[Ed: Readers, now is the time to urgently contact your local MPs voicing your objections to this Bill.]
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