Trans activists in Hong Kong win landmark victory for gender identification

Hong Kong Pride Parade, 2014
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Hong Kong’s highest court recently gave trans people a big victory by ruling that gender-affirming surgery should not be required before someone can legally change their gender on identity cards.

The case was brought about by two trans men – Henry Edward Tse and someone only identified as Q – protesting the current government policy stating that they could not change the gender on their identity cards until they had their ovaries and uteruses removed as well as surgery to construct male genitalia.

The court declared that policy unconstitutional and said it…

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