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Title: Hong Kong: wedding bells for transgender people
Post by: stephaniec on July 17, 2014, 08:59:09 PM
Post by: stephaniec on July 17, 2014, 08:59:09 PM
http://www.scmp.com/news/Hong-Kong/article/1555449/wedding-bells-ring-transgender-people
Title: Re: Hong Kong: wedding bells for transgender people
Post by: suzifrommd on July 18, 2014, 09:10:56 AM
Post by: suzifrommd on July 18, 2014, 09:10:56 AM
An excerpt so people have an idea what the article is about:
IMO, this is horrible.
The notion that you're not fully female until you get GRS is one of the most oppressive of the misconceptions that cisgender people have of us.
QuoteTranssexual people who have undergone a full sex-change operation can marry in their chosen sex from today, despite a delay to a bill giving legal effect to the policy change.
"Persons who have received full sex reassignment surgery will be treated by the Registrar of Marriages as being of the sex to which they are reassigned after surgery for the purpose of marriage registration," a government spokesman said yesterday.
The change comes after a Court of Final Appeal judgment last year allowing "W" - who has undergone surgery to become a woman - to marry her boyfriend. The court ruled she should be treated as a person of her chosen sex. The court said that the meaning of "woman" and "female" included "post-operative male-to-female transsexual persons whose gender has been ... changed as a result of sex-reassignment surgery".
But controversy remains over the legislation. Rights activists say it is inhumane to insist that a person undergo dangerous surgery before marrying in their chosen gender.
IMO, this is horrible.
The notion that you're not fully female until you get GRS is one of the most oppressive of the misconceptions that cisgender people have of us.