Analysis and research about trans legislation

For a long time transpeople have been denied the right to legal name change by the government offices in charge of these issues. The name law has been intrerpeted by the authorities that a person who is legallly male can not have a female first or middle name.

The second part of the report about homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has just been published in the European Union. The first part contained the legal analysis and was on market in June 2008, this second part discusses the social situation, shows a difficult and harsh context, rather than the progress of the legislation. It also includes topics such as health and religion, where the experiences and points of views are diverse. We suggest you to check out this report to refine strategies for the rights of the LGBT community which also involves changes in the symbolic universe and thoughts of the society.

As we mentioned in the last Bulletin, the document made by Justus Eisfeld about legal situation of gender identity in Europe give as information about many countries. This time we choose France, because is the country we did not have any information.

This time we are going to include to our library a document of legal analysis made by Justus Eisfeld. This document had a resume of main European Laws related with transsexuality. This is a vital document for know as clear as possible current legislation and plan our demands.

In the T-Informa #5 of April 2008, we made a brief summary of the legislation on gender identity around the world, and we also added to our library the complete version so it could be available for all our readers.

Yogyakarta Principles on the application of international Human Rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity is the result of a distinguished group of human rights experts that has drafted, developed, discussed and refined these Principles. Following an experts’ meeting held at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 6 to 9 November 2006, 29 distinguished experts from 25 countries with diverse backgrounds and expertise relevant to issues of human rights law.

It is very important to consider gender identity legislation and know how it is working so far, in order to determine if it helps people to find their real identity, or if, on the contrary, it forces them to assume one of the two binary sexual identities that may have shunned them before. Here is the approach taken by a case in Spain.