I'd like to take a moment to put some facts on the record, as there has been some confusing information about what this bill will and won't do. So, to be clear, you can already change the gender on a birth certificate. The change of your gender on a passport or a licence already can happen. The bill does not propose changes to the way we collect or record sex information at birth. What we are proposing here, and what I am asking the select committee to use their inquiry powers to look at, is removing what are, frankly, unnecessary barriers for a small but important group of New Zealanders to identify their gender on their birth certificate. This isn't something that has been dreamt up overnight; this has been part of a substantial policy process to do what this Government knows is the right thing to do for our transgender, intersex, and non-binary communities. I don't believe that these changes will impact, impinge, or threaten the rights of any other New Zealanders, but they will increase the rights of some vulnerable members of our community who deserve the dignity and right to be able to self-identify their gender on their birth certificate without financial, medical, or legal barriers.