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HRC 47 Statement: Protect Trans Women’s Rights document

In a historic first, yesterday, 27 States called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently protect the human rights of trans people, especially trans women, 5 NGOs said. States also urged governments to work with trans-led organizations to raise awareness about the specific situations facing their communities.

  • Published
  • 29 June 2021
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What if someone says “I am Napoleon?” On trans people and self-determination

Many laws and policies restricting trans people’s access to legal gender recognition have been based on previous restrictions in psycho-medical knowledge prior to the release of the ICD-11, for example, by justifying it as compliance with the World Health Organization’s previously pathologizing classification. However, after 2019, that reasoning is no longer an acceptable excuse. It is time for all countries around the world to behave coherently with their own tradition of compliance, and to depathologize trans people in accordance with the World Health Organization’s updated classification.

  • Written by
  • Mauro Cabral Grinspan
  • Published
  • 26 May 2021