Sunday, December 30, 2012
Argentina: New ID's for 1,720 transgender individuals since 2012 law; 5,839 same-sex marriages since 2010 law
http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2012/12/argentina-new-government-ids-for-1720.htmlIn 2010 Argentina became the first Latin American nation to adopt a nation-wide marriage equality law.
This summer, Argentina continued its bid to become the most LGBT-friendly country in the world when it also passed what some call the most progressive gender identity law in the world.
The law requires the public health system to provide adequate health services for transgender individuals and grants them the right to change their name and gender designation on government ID's without having to show proof of gender reassignment surgery or a psychological diagnosis.
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Gender identity law: As reflected by the graphic above 1,720 Argentine individuals have processed changes to their official identification records to reflect their current name and gender representation (there is an interactive version of the graphic on La Nación's webpage which also includes a separate graphic for same-sex marriages).
Those blue dots represent the per capita ranking of each region and what is striking particularly striking is that there have been transgender individuals who have sought official recognition of their identity even in the most conservative areas of the nation.
