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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMcDonald, Elisabeth
_91672
245 _aDiscrimination and trans people :
_bthe abandoned proposal to amend the Human Rights Act 1993
_cElisabeth McDonald
260 _bSSRN,
_c2016
500 _aVictoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers, 2016, 6(29): 301-316
520 _aThe trans community debate concerning the application of section 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993 to trans people became public when the Human Rights (Gender Identity) Amendment Bill 2004 was selected from the legislative ballot. The Bill proposed to amend section 21 to include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination. Before the Bill received its first reading, however, it was withdrawn by its proponent, on the grounds that an opinion from the Crown Law Office concluded that such an amendment was unnecessary as trans people could well be covered by the existing prohibited ground of "sex" in section 21. In this comment, the author questions the conclusion of the Crown Law opinion and argues that an amendment is still required in order to protect the trans community from discrimination. (Author's abstract). Record #8853
650 _aDISCRIMINATION
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650 _aHUMAN RIGHTS
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650 0 _99361
_aHuman Rights Act 1993
650 0 _aLAW REFORM
_9338
650 _aLEGISLATION
_9346
650 0 _aLGBTQIA+
_93453
650 _aTRANSGENDER
_93315
651 _aNEW ZEALAND
_92588
773 0 _tVictoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers, 2016, 6(29): 301-316
830 _aVictoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers
_913256
856 _uhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2546496
_zRead online
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE
_hnews129