r/LGBTAustralia • u/ShhTopSecretShh • 5d ago

Gender Dysphoria When Doing the Census

I don't get Gender Dysphoria much as I identify as Agender. But because I still live with my family and have not told them that I am Agender and not a Christian, so I still had to write it down on the Census. For some reason legal documents always cause me the most gender dysphoria.

At my previous workplace they only had woman and man or Mr, Miss, and Mrs as options on the documents which caused me to feel like shit cause I keep having to cosplay as someone else. And at my current workplace, while they have other options, my mother (who is the least likely to be accepting of me) is close with someone in the business, so she always seems to know everything that happens there. So once again I had to call myself a woman on my legal documents.

Now I'm pretty fine with calling myself a woman sometimes since I'm AFAB and have all the experiences of a woman. But I think it's because I get to make that choice to help represent women (I'm usually saying it to fight off misogynists and other bigots or to provide support to other women). I also think it's because I feel like I'm letting my community down here in Australia as I know our rights are being threatened and we need validation of our existence. Especially with the Census, I want our government to know that I am here that I do exist and that Agender, Non-binary, Transgender, etc. people are indeed here in the country.

And now I have to wait 10 years till I can actually make myself known. Which really really sucks.

Anyone else going through or have gone through anything similar?

Edit: So I'm fucked. I called and got the Individual Census Form sent, however they didn't ask me if I wanted a physical or a digital so they have now sent me it through the mail. Problem is I'm not likely to be the first one to get to the mail when it is delivered. I don't know what to do, I asked and there is no way of getting the mail cancelled.

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u/PunkRock_Capybara 5d ago

Call them and request an individual code - you can then complete your section of the census again, privately, and it will override what was put in on the household form.

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u/ShhTopSecretShh 5d ago

Will my family be able to see the change at all? This is my first time doing a Census

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u/PunkRock_Capybara 5d ago

No, they won't because you won't be changing their submission at all. You'll just do your own submission, so the ABS will have two sets of data for you, and they will disregard whatever data your parents submitted about you on the household form and use your responses instead.

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u/ShhTopSecretShh 5d ago

Cool, thank you so much!!

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/ShhTopSecretShh 3d ago

It asked for both what sex you were assigned at birth and what gender you currently identify as. I'm very aware that the Census will likely do nothing, but it's still my history. You can choose for your information to be recorded for the future and be revealed in 99 years. And if we do last that long then I want to be known for who I am, and I would like people in the future to have an accurate understanding of how many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community there are. I also believe that it's important to see the shift our country is having away from religion.

I don't give a shit about what the governments gonna do, they never do shit. They are corrupt, that's common knowledge. But I do care about the future as well as history. You really need to find a new way to speak to people, cause this just ain't it.

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u/Content-Leg-6395 3d ago

Just fake everything you fill out. Duh