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EXUAL reassignment surgery should not be carried out on infants, Dr Milton Diamond said at a recent public lecture at the Victoria University law faculty. Dr Diamond's lecture, entitled legal and ethical issues in the treatment of gender variance in children and adolescents, was jointly sponsored by the law faculty and the Ministry of Social Development.

CLEAN-break divorces should be made available, according to a new report on the annulment of marriages. The courts services annual report, published yesterday, shows there were 55 decrees of nullity applied for last year. While this is a 10% decrease on the 61 nullity applications made in 2008, there was an overall decrease in all family law proceedings f

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