Transgendered and intersex Queenslanders will have to wait until the Palaszczuk Government addresses a multitude of other wrongs against the state's LGBTIQ community, before learning whether or not the government will allow them to change gender on their birth certificates.
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The Palaszczuk Government is facing pressure to follow the ACT and Victorian lead in amending legislation to allow transgendered and intersex people to alter their gender on their birth certificate, a move which removes legal barriers and discrimination for those transitioning.
The South Australian parliament is examining legislation which aims to follow suit and Tasmania has opened the topic up for consultation.
But Queensland has made no moves since Newman Government Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced a review of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act. The change in government saw the review dropped and Labor has yet to pick the topic back up.
The Queensland Action Group for LGBTIQ students have continued their campaign lobbying the government to make the change, arguing the status quo directly impacts on the health and quality of life of those already undergoing challenging times.
"The Queensland Government must ensure legislation does not discriminate against LGBTIQ people and does not result in harm, physically or mentally, to individuals, families and children," action group chair Janet Berry said in a statement.
"Mental health consequences arise from failure to recognise people's identities."
A spokesman for Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said the government was working through a "number of issues the LGBTIQ community has identified among its priorities for social justice reform", which included expunging historical convictions for consensual homosexual offences, moving forward with its commitment to scrap the gay panic provocation defence and standardising the age of consent, to bring anal sex in line with vaginal sex under the state's legislation.
A report on how best to move forward with expunging convictions is due next week and the age of consent standardisation legislation is currently before a parliamentary committee. The government has begun consultation with the state's legal community on how to remove the gay panic defence from the state's law books.
Everything else the Attorney-General's spokesman said, would have to wait.
"The Government will continue to look at further reforms, including those being introduced in other jurisdictions," he said.
Parliament resumes next week.
