Transsexuals are changing in Argentina
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June 6, 2012, Wednesday
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TRANSSEXUALS lined up on Monday to be the first to take advantage of Argentina's gender-identity law, which enables people to change their name and sex on official documents without first getting approval from a judge or doctor.
No other country allows people to change their official identities based merely on how they feel.
Many countries, including the United States, require people to pass barriers that sexual identity experts describe as painful or humiliating, such as hormone therapy or surgery to physically change their sex organs and psychiatric visits to demonstrate they have "gender identity disorder" or other abnormalities.
Argentina's gender identity law won congressional approval with a 55-0 Senate vote last month and took effect on Monday. A small group of transsexuals chose to immediately assert their rights at a civil registry in Buenos Aires.
Maria Mara Brodos said: "It's important to have the freedom to decide by myself and not have anyone deciding it instead of me."
No other country allows people to change their official identities based merely on how they feel.
Many countries, including the United States, require people to pass barriers that sexual identity experts describe as painful or humiliating, such as hormone therapy or surgery to physically change their sex organs and psychiatric visits to demonstrate they have "gender identity disorder" or other abnormalities.
Argentina's gender identity law won congressional approval with a 55-0 Senate vote last month and took effect on Monday. A small group of transsexuals chose to immediately assert their rights at a civil registry in Buenos Aires.
Maria Mara Brodos said: "It's important to have the freedom to decide by myself and not have anyone deciding it instead of me."
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