Passports

Passports are managed at a Federal level by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Passports are one of the few forms of Australian ID that can reflect your gender regardless of the Australian state or territory of your birth and without forcing you to have a surgical intervention.

This page was developed in collaboration with Equality Australia and ICLC.

Gender markers

You are able to update the gender marker on your passport without having had a surgical intervention, no matter which Australian state or territory you were born in.

You are able to change the gender marker to M, F, or X (defined on their website as indeterminate/intersex/unspecified, but broadly understood to also include non-binary identities).

You will need to fill out the form ‘Application for an Australian Travel Document’ (Form B-14) with your registered medical practitioner or psychologist

An updated birth certificate or registered details is also sufficient.

For a full list of supported identity documents, visit the DFAT website.

The fee for changing your gender marker with DFAT is $293, which is the price of a new passport. If your passport has at least two years left on it, you are able to apply for a new passport to be issued free of charge.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advise that, while it is possible to have an X marker on your passport, that not every country around the world will recognise that marker, and that there may be countries in which using your passport would be unsafe. For more details, visit the government’s Smart Traveller website.

Name

To update your name on a passport, you will need an updated birth certificate or change of name certificate issued by a Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM), which you can find out more about here.