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Singapore Voids Marriage of Transgender Woman And Her Wife

PressdeskTransgender RightsJuly 19, 2017April 14, 2024

As The Straits Times has reported on July 18th, the Registry of Marriages (“the Registry”) has voided the marriage of a transgender woman and her partner in an unprecedented case in Singapore condemned by OutRight Action International.

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It’s official – France adopts a new legal gender recognition procedure!

NewsdeskTransgender RightsOctober 12, 2016April 14, 2024

The French parliament has voted to introduce a legal gender recognition procedure that is free from sterilisation and medicalisation. The National Assembly met in a plenary session on Wednesday 12 October to debate and vote on the 21st century justice law (La loi sur la justice au XX1eme siècle), which included provisions relating to legal gender recognition.

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Nearly 200 apply to change gender under new Norway legal gender law

NewsdeskScandinavia Transgender RightsAugust 1, 2016April 14, 2024

A total of 190 people have applied to change their legal gender in Norway in the month since a new law came into force allowing them to do so without gender reassignment surgery.

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Members of the French Parliament should ensure respect for the human rights of trans people

NewsdeskTransgender RightsJune 22, 2016April 14, 2024

The Members of the French Parliament should ensure that trans people in France can obtain legal recognition of their gender through a quick, accessible, transparent and affordable procedure that fully respects their human rights, said Amnesty International, ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe in a statement today.

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Transgender people in Ireland recognised by new law

NewsdeskTransgender RightsJuly 16, 2015April 14, 2024

Transgender people in Ireland have gained legal recognition of their desired gender due to the passing of a bill by the Oireachtas.

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Experts urge Norway to drop medical requirements for legal gender change

NewsdeskTransgender RightsApril 11, 2015April 14, 2024

Transgender people in Norway should be allowed to change their legal gender without having to undergo mandatory genital removal surgery and sterilisation, a group of experts said on Friday.

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