After three hours of heated debate on December 9, Gay Star News is reporting that the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare has decided to allow trans and intersex people intending to change their legal gender to do so without transitioning or surgical intervention.Taiwan back in 2008 took steps to make it easier to change gender identity, but it required compulsory genital surgery, removal of all relevant sexual organs and evaluations by two psychologists before they would approve any document changes.
Even if you did go through with all of that, you had to be unmarried and your efforts could be undone by your parents having veto power over the process.
Taiwan's Ministry of Interior will come up with the new regulations and policy necessary to implement the of the Ministry of Health and Welfare after further discussions.
But it is a decision that is being hailed in the trans and intersex communities there as a major step forward and more progressive than their Asia-Pacific Rim counterparts.
‘The Interior Ministry’s household registration system is linked with all our legal documents, so the sex registered at birth will have to change for other legal papers to change,’ said intersex rights activist Hiker Chiu to Gay Star News.
‘The
Interior Ministry’s household registration system is linked with all
our legal documents, so the sex registered at birth will have to change
for other legal papers to change,’ said intersex rights activist Hiker
Chiu - See more at:
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/taiwan-allows-legal-gender-changes-without-transitioning091213#sthash.sLmOm975.dpuf
Here's hoping the new regulations are compiled swiftly and their implementation for our trans an gender variant cousins in Taiwan goes as smoothly as possible.
TransGriot Note: photo is of Taiwanese trans model Alicia Liu.
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