The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons /: edited by Jens M. Scherpe.

Name: The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons / edited by Jens M. Scherpe.
ISBN: 9781780685588

Scherpe, Jens M.,; University of Hong Kong.

The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons / edited by Jens M. Scherpe.

Scherpe, Jens M., 1971- editor.; University of Hong Kong. Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, sponsoring body.

2015

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The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons / edited by Jens M. Scherpe.

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Scherpe, Jens M., 1971- editor.

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University of Hong Kong. Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, sponsoring body.

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Cambridge : Intersentia Ltd., 2015.

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1 online resource (xiv, 663 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Formatted Contents Note

Transgenderism and transsexuality : medical and psychological viewpoints / Friedmann Pfäfflin
Transgenderism and the Christian church : an overview / Duncan Dormor
Metamorphosis and (trans) migrations : spiritual dimensions of gender transition/ Christina Beardsley
Belgium and the Netherlands / Walter Pintens
Czech Republic / Barbara Havelková
Denmark / Natalie Videbæk Munkholm
England and Wales / Stephen Gilmore
Germany / Anatol Dutta
Ireland / Brian Sloan
Italy / Maria Giovanna Cubeddu Wiedemann
Spain / Josep Ferrer Riba and Albert Lamarca Marquès
Sweden / Jameson Garland
Turkey / Yeşim M. Atamer
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Athena Nga-chee Liu
Japan / Yuko Nishitani
Singapore / Terry Sheung-Hung Kaan
Taiwan / Chung-hsing Ho
Varieties of decision-making : reflections on deciding Re Kevin / Richard Chisholm
Australia / Rachel Wallbank
New Zealand / Elisabeth McDonald and Jack Byrne
Argentina / Laura Maria Giosa, María Victoria Schiro and Peter Dunne
USA / Jameson Garland
Comparative analysis and recommendations / Jens M. Scherpe and Peter Dunne.

Summary

The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions, and for European countries there is no question as to whether such a change should be allowed after the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Goodwin v. United Kingdom (Application no. 28957/95). The question has therefore shifted to what the requirements for such a change of the legal sex/gender should be. Many jurisdictions have legislated or developed an administrative approach to changing sex/gender, but the requirements differ significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, particularly with regard to age, nationality and marital status, as well as the medical and psychological requirements. The latter in some jurisdictions still include surgery and sterility as a precondition, thus potentially forcing the persons concerned to choose between the recognition of their sex/gender identity and their physical integrity. The book also examines questions that are thus far under-researched, namely what the full legal consequences of a change of legal sex/gender should be, for example with regard to existing legal relationships such as marriages and registered partnerships, but also concerning children and parentage. The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons is the result of an international research project, including not only national reports from 14 European and non-European jurisdictions but also two chapters that look at legal sex/gender changes from a Christian perspective and one chapter from a medical-psychological perspective. The final comparative chapter compares and contrasts the different approaches and requirements and makes recommendations for best practice and law reform.

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