SALRI - The Law Reform Institute at the University of Adelaide has today released its recommendations for changes to a number of legislations that currently discrimination against LGBTIQ. Key recommendations: SALRI recommends that the South Australian Government introduce the following legislative reforms to Parliament: 2.1 Remove the discriminatory impact of s 12 of the Adoption Act 1988 (SA) that currently excludes same sex couples from eligibility as prospective adoptive parents, subject to any relevant findings and recommendations made following the DECD Adoption Act Review. 2.2 Amend s 9 of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 1988 (SA) to (a) clarify that a person can access assisted reproductive treatment (‘ART’) if, in the person’s circumstances, they are unlikely to become pregnant other than by an assisted reproductive treatment procedure and (b) include the guiding principle that people seeking to undergo ART procedures must not be discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation, marital status or religion. These amendments should be based on the relevant provisions of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 (Vic). Corresponding amendments should be made to s 5 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) which currently excludes artificial fertilisation services from the definition of ‘services’ in that Act. 2.3 Amend the terminology in Part 3 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) to replace the current protections against discrimination on the grounds of ‘sexuality’ and ‘chosen gender’ with similar protections based on the attributes of ‘sexual orientation’, ‘gender identity’ and ‘intersex status’ as defined in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth). Law Reform Institute director John Williams said it was important to end all forms of discrimination. "There's a whole swag of terminology which has just, in a way, passed us by. The world is a much more diverse place than some of this legislation started life with," he said. "There's more than 140 pieces of legislation [overall] that have sort of binary notions of male and female, but also there's significant legislation that makes the lives of those LGBTIQ members of our community just difficult." https://law.adelaide.edu.au/research/law-reform-institute/documents/audit_report_lgbtiq_sept_2015.pdf