Tag: Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill

The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill passed its second reading unanimously last night.   National has voted in favour of the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill which passed in Parliament unanimously last night. The Bill seeks to make it easier for transgender New Zealanders to update birth...

Feminist group Speak Up for Women were allowed to hold events at Palmerston North and Auckland council premises despite initial cancellations. Speak Up for Women have been holding a series of events throughout New Zealand designed to be forums on the discuss the sex self-identification clauses within the Births, Death,...

The world’s first transgender MP says she wants a decision made “one way or another.” Former Labour MP Georgina Beyer has hit out at the government saying she is unsure as to why there is a delay on proposed changes to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill. "I don't...