SC junks transsexual’s plea for gender, name change

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SC junks transsexual's plea for gender, name change
Inquirer dot net
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=96060
By Tetch Torres

"Thus, the words 'male' and 'female' in everyday understanding do not include persons who have undergone sex reassignment...Since the statutory language of the Civil Register Law was enacted in the early 1900s and remains unchanged, it cannot be alterable through surgery or something that allows a post-operative male-to-female transsexual to be included in the category 'female'," the high court said.