Today, we are proud to be the most rainbow Parliament in the world, and yet, for many of our rainbow community, basic life events where a birth certificate is often used, such as enrolling a child at school or opening a new bank account, become a moment of stress, forced outing, and discrimination. And as Minister of Internal Affairs, I think it's unacceptable for us to continue using a government-issued birth certificate that causes pain and discrimination for some New Zealanders. Under this bill, transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders will no longer require proof of medical treatment or to show a court that they physically conform to the deeply held and lived knowledge of who they know themselves to be. 