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TRANSGENDERED AND INTERSEXUAL INDIVIDUALS

No constitution has yet added specific wording to
prohibit discrimination against transgendered or intersexual

individuals.

TRANSGENDER: The European Union requires member
countries to prohibit discrimination on the basis of çgender
identityé. Similar provisions are now common in anti-

discrimination laws in North America, sometimes with the
additional words çand gender expression.é This is the wording

that has developed internationally to include transsexuals,
transgenders and transvestites.

The European Court of Human Rights in Goodwin v
United Kingdom ruled that transsexuals are entitled to have

their personal documentation changed and to marry in their
post-transition sex. This is the policy now throughout Europe,
and, as well, in China, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.

INTERSEXUALS: We are at the beginning stages of

recognizing discrimination against intersexuals, and the banning
of medically unnecessary ùcorrectiveû surgery on infants who
are unable to give informed consent. These issues have been

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