Portugal adopts Trans law - 8 days for Legal Gender Recognition
Sat, 11/27/2010 - 02:43 — Richard
http://www.tgeu.org/PR_Portuese_Trans_LawCongratulations, Portugal! It is a Trans law!
Since November 25th Portugal has a law regulating the legal gender recognition. It is filling a legal gap human rights activists have been pointing out for a long time. With the new law, the preferred gender can be obtained using a standardized administrative procedure within 8 days. Besides the application a certificate from a medical multi-disciplinary team is necessary to fullfil the pre-conditions.
TGEU welcomes this legislative step as it ends a long period of legal uncertainty for trans people in Portugal. Portugal joins also the progessive club of Spain and the Uk, the only countries in the European Union, where sterilisation is not mandatory in legal gender recognition legislation. It sends also an important signal to other states in Europe to reconsider pre-conditions and remove abusive elements ub gender recognition legislation as recommended by the Council of Ministers earlier this year.
