Male in the Philippines, but Female in Germany: The curious case of Jenny T. Ramsey
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/male-in-the-philippines-but-female-in-germany-the-curious-case-of-jenny-t-ramsey/ (http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/male-in-the-philippines-but-female-in-germany-the-curious-case-of-jenny-t-ramsey/)
2/5/10
"You cannot renew your passport as you can't have dual identity," said a staff of the Philippine Embassy in Berlin to Jenny T. Ramsey. Jenny didn't do anything illegal. She's not pretending to be somebody else, deceptively living two lives. She just epitomizes two of the inconveniences of being a human of transsexual experience: 1) Having a legal sex that doesn't match one's actual, lived, and to be a bit scientific about it, neurological sex; and 2) Having a legal name that doesn't match one's actual, everyday name. But Jenny's case is in an entirely different level. And I reckon that, given that there are just very few countries in the world that legally affirms the gender identity of transsexual people, this is one of the 21st century dilemmas of transsexual people: Jenny currently has two legal sexes and two legal names from two different countries."