{"id":39629,"date":"2021-12-09T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-passes-law-making-it-easier-to-change-sex-on-birth-certificates"},"modified":"2021-12-09T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T06:02:10","slug":"new-zealand-passes-law-making-it-easier-to-change-sex-on-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39629","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand passes law making it easier to change sex on birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates welcome bill allowing for self-identification they say upholds rights for transgender and non-binary New Zealanders<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s rainbow community will be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates without providing evidence of a medical procedure,<strong> <\/strong>after a bill to recognise the right for gender minorities to self-identify passed into law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a proud day in Aotearoa\u2019s history,\u201d internal affairs minister Jan Tinetti said. \u201cParliament has voted in favour of inclusivity and against discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-passes-law-making-it-easier-to-change-sex-on-birth-certificates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates welcome bill allowing for self-identification they say upholds rights for transgender and non-binary New ZealandersNew Zealand\u2019s rainbow community will be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates without providing eviden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,56,572],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-new-zealand","category-transgender"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39630,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629\/revisions\/39630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}