These are all important changes, but one of the changes that came back from select committee in 2018 has been subject to a fair amount of public debate, and that is around the gender self-identification provisions. The process to amend registered sex has not changed since 1995, and yet, as a country, we have. This Government believes that all New Zealanders, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics, have the right to safety, dignity, and to live free from discrimination. Yet our current law requires transgender and intersex New Zealanders to undergo a complex, intimidating, and often inaccessible process based on the provision of medical evidence to amend the sex on their birth certificate. A survey in 2019 found that 83 percent of this community did not have the correct gender represented on their birth certificate. 