Court allows girl, 13, to be boy

Court allows girl, 13, to be boy
By Louise Milligan
April 14, 2004
"THE Family Court has delivered a unique judgment allowing a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a boy to begin a sex-change process and amend the child's birth certificate.

The decision by outgoing Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson is the first time an Australian child who is biologically one sex has been given legal approval to begin to change to the other through hormone treatment because of purely psychiatric issues.

The three-step process means the child, who can only be known as "Alex", will begin reversible hormone treatment, supplemented by treatment with some permanent effects when she is 16."

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