translatinxs:

En el link puede verse la sesión de la Cámara de Diputadxs que está dándose en este mismo momento.

Right now, Argentina’s Congress is discussing a groundbreaking gender identity law which would allow trans people to change their gender marker & name without any sort of medical/psychological permission and without needing body modifications. Also, if it passes, hormones and surgery would be covered by health insurance and public hospitals.

Watch the discussion at the link above (in Spanish).

Edit: YES, it was approved by this chamber of Congress! Now it has to pass the Senate before officially becoming a law.

A trans woman is insisting a Tennessee DMV can’t have it both ways: either they decide she’s a man and she should be legally allowed to go topless, or she is a woman & then they need to change her gender marker on her license to an F.

So she took her shirt off outside the DMV, and they promptly arrested her. I’m sure they still didn’t change her gender marker, however.

These ‘gender determined by genitals’ laws have got to go.

neutresex:

Since most court cases involving transgender people discuss genitals at great length, we thought it appropriate that the genitals get to say their piece!  “Trannymals Go To Court” is a fairy tale with a cast of eight fierce and fiery talking genitals who expose harmful legal practices, speak up for gender self-identification, and spread unapologetic tranny pride.

Watch this 12-minute film at the link above. It’s really cute (they somehow managed to make genitals as cute as kittens!) and has a powerful message for respect and legal equality. I admit I felt iffy about the whole concept, but I’m glad I took the time to check it out.

(As you can imagine, it’s not safe for work.)

fuckyeahmtfs:

pianycist:

A French civil court tells a trans woman that although she has been taking hormones for three years, her breast growth is not enough for them to change her legal gender to female:

If your breasts don’t measure up – you just can’t be a “proper” woman. If you thought such archaic attitudes had long since disappeared, think again: in a recent ruling, French authorities declared that before trans woman Delphine Ravisé-Giard could be classed as a woman, she needed to provide written evidence that she had undergone breast enhancement. (…)

“Of course, if the state applied the same test to cis [non-trans] women, it would have to redefine the gender of many French women. But of course, this would never happen.”

She added: “What size breasts are required for a change in civil status? Will that breast size be established nationally by the Minister of Justice or will it be up to the personal tastes of individual attorneys?”

I wonder if I as a small-chested transmasculine person went to France, would my legal gender as female would be revoked? I would happily trade legal genders with Delphine Ravisé-Giard.

On a more serious note, I wonder if this court is giving FTMs a hard time with changing legal gender as well: whether by “your chest is too large” or “you don’t have enough facial hair,” there are cis men whose legal gender status would be revoked if those standards were enforced on everyone whose legal gender is male.

Read the whole article here.

“…Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) – a resident of Sydney, NSW – is legally recognised as neither male nor female according to the Australian government.

Originally Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and registered as male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and construction of a vagina and was then issued with a gender recognition certificate as female in Australia.

But this did not work out for Norrie as zie (gender-neutral pronoun) did not feel comfortable living solely as a female so zie ceased lifelong hormone treatment and took up a neuter identity which is neither male nor female, resisting any further female or male normalisation.

In January 2010 doctors declared that they were unable to determine Norrie as either male or female as zie has no gonads, the hormonal system was atypically male or female, and Norrie’s psychological identity was neuter…”