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Title: Breakthrough on Transgender Rights in…Kyrgyzstan
Post by: SandraJane on November 12, 2011, 05:09:55 AM
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Breakthrough on Transgender Rights in...Kyrgyzstan

    by Paul Canning | November 11, 2011 | 5:00 pm

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Global Fund for Women reports that an LGBT group in Kyrgyzstan have achieved a breakthrough on transgender rights which still eludes many Western nations.

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked and mountainous formerly Soviet state in Central Asia. In the last year, it has suffered major ethnic rioting and a change of government. It hosts the only US military base remaining in Central Asia.

Kyrgyzstan has passed new gender marker legislation which does not require a formal document to be issued by a medical institution showing a medical intervention. The new law solves the problem of there being no such process for medical professionals to follow and no relevant government document necessary.