A bill allowing transgender and intersex people to change their birth certificates without having surgery has passed its first hurdle in the Victorian parliament.
The lower house voted 56-27 in favour of the bill on Thursday and it now moves to the upper house where it's expected to be debated in the final week of August.
The Liberal-National opposition has indicated it will not support the bill, meaning the government will need the support of three crossbench MPs to get it through the Legislative Council.
