The Legislative Yuan passed a Bill on Tuesday that scrapped the requirement for Taiwanese trans people to undergo gender reassignment before being able to receive legal gender recognition.
Taiwanese authorities described the previous situation as inhumane, and the Bill marks the reversal of a 2008 order by the Ministry of Interior that said trans and intersex people must have the ‘relevant sexual organs' in order to apply for recognition of their gender."
Lets post some good news shall we? I don't wanna become the New York Times and only post the bad. So the Taiwanese government has decided that their previous law was inhumane because for someone to change their gender they had to get surgery to get the sex organs of that gender. Now this would mean you need lots of money and that you would have to get a doctor that would do it for you and a donor that has privates on demand. Read more at http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/world/gender-recognition-for-taiwan-s-trans-people-16032.html
See you tomorrow!
TheLGBTQ_Peep (Francois van Kempen)