Dear friends of ILGA,
As you know ILGA is producing a new report on the legal situation of transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More people worldwide similar to the state-sponsored homophobiafear, unreasonable anger, intolerance or/and hatred directed towards people attracted to others of the same gender. More report available on ILGA’s website. The research is being undertaken on behalf of ILGA by Anna Kirey (anna.kirey@gmail.com) who is currently a board member of ILGA-Asia and Labrys Kyrgyzstan.
How could you help?
We are collecting information from each country of the world but we are now seeking specific input from the following countries:
The Middle East: Algeria, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza, Egypt, Yemen, Rep. Iran, Islamic Rep. Morocco, Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic
Africa: Angola, Gambia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Burundi, Kenya, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Malawi, Sudan, Mali, Swaziland, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Niger
We are collecting information about the following pieces of legislation:
- National/local legislation includes possibility of changing name in official documents
- National/local legislation includes possibility of changing genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More marker in official documents
- Surgeries are required to change name or gender marker
- Irreversible sterilization is required to change name or gender marker
- Gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More is listed as discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. More grounds in legislation
- There are criminal provisions related gender expressionrefers to how a person presents their gender through physical appearance – including dress, hairstyles, accessories, cosmetics – and mannerisms, speech, behavioural patterns, names and personal references. More/identity (some places criminalize ‘cross-dressing’)
For each of the points above please provide the text of the legislation (in English when possible) and/or the link to legislation (if not available online, please indicate the relevant article of the Civil Code, Family Code, Constitution or any other document).
If you cannot provide detailed information, please, indicate where we could look for information e.g. who would be knowledgeable about this kind of legislation in your region/country or links to civil code/constitution documents.
Please, send your contribution to Anna Kirey by Friday 22nd July at anna.kirey@gmail.com and remember to include the name of the country that you are sending information about and your contact details (including your organization ones).
Thank you in advance for your continuous support!
Thalia Almendares
ILGA Trans Secretariat