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Uruguay Approves Bill To
Allow Changes In Gender,
Name
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Uruguay Approves Bill To
Allow Changes In Gender,
Name
Momtevideo - The
Uruguayan Senate has
passed a bill allowing
people aged 12 and older
to change their gender
and name.
The bill, which will be
debated and voted on by
the Chamber of Deputies
in 2009, was only
approved by the ruling
left-wing coalition
Broad Front, legislative
sources said Wednesday.
It was submitted to the
Senate for debate
Tuesday night.
One of the most
controversial aspects of
the initiative is that
it allows people aged 12
and older to change
their names without
their parents' consent.
However, people who
decide to change their
identity are requested
by the bill to prove
that the name or gender
they have on their birth
certificate "are
discordant with their
own identity of gender"
and the changes will
only become legal at 18.
Also, it must be proved
that the "stability and
persistence" of the
discord between their
own identity of gender
and what is on their
identity papers has
continued for at least
two years.
Senator Francisco
Gallinal from the
right-wing National
Party said during the
debate that the bill "is
a negotiation" of human
conditions and that it
is "aberrant" to allow
youths to change their
identity.
But Senator Margarita
Percovich from the
ruling party said it is
"an obligation of the
political system to
modify the codes that
people need."
Some 3,000 transsexuals
of the 3.4 million
Uruguayan citizens would
be allowed to change
their original identity
papers, according to the
figures used by
legislators from the
ruling parties.
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