Poland’s Route To a Transgender (R)evolution Inside Visegrad by Wiktor

[SandraJane]

Poland's Route To a Transgender (R)evolution


Legal gender recognition, known to Polish courts since the late 1960s, stands as an example of bizarre cooperation between judges and doctors. Medical verification in gender recognition procedures is common also in other countries. Yet the Polish process seems to constantly breach human rights - and simple logic.


by Wiktor Dynarski | Inside Visegrad | 21. 5. 2012


http://visegradrevue.eu/?p=750


During the last 50 years, gender recognition in Poland was addressed in practice, but the first  legislation on gender recognition – the Gender Accordance Act – was only proposed to the Polish Parliament in May 2012.

Current legal measures are still marked with procedural inaccuracies and multiple verification steps, which makes the Polish gender recognition process one of the most confusing in Europe. It is confusing to both persons interested in changing their gender marker and to health care providers, who often end up puzzled and unsure of their role.

[Medusa]

In Poland is still dark age 
Church have more power than government, people can't decide about their health (prohibited interruptions, and many other "unethical" procedures), and peoples act like wild animal, it is strange country 

[barbie]

My impression there when I was in Gdansk was that Polish people are conservative. In other European countries, people do not stare at me so much like Polish. Most countries that were at once under the Soviet communism seem to be the same in this respect. I have visited Poland, Mongolia, and Russia.

Barbie~~