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News and Events => Opinions & Editorials => Topic started by: Natasha on May 15, 2008, 06:11:42 PM

Title: Governments must take all measures necessary to protect LGBT citizens (commentar
Post by: Natasha on May 15, 2008, 06:11:42 PM
Governments must take all measures necessary to protect LGBT citizens

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7647.html
5/15/2008

"Excerpt: Transgender persons are humiliated. Some of them have been
denied necessary healthcare and have been confronted with medical
practitioners who refuse to provide gender reassignment therapy.

Others have been prevented from having a change of name in passport or
identification documents or only managed such a change after having
gone through de-humanising procedures that are currently in place in
many States."