Health News
2006-10-12
Vietnam OK's
gender reassignment surgery
Under a draft
decree, Vietnam will permit transgender people to undergo
gender reassignment surgery starting next January, according
Under a draft
decree, Vietnam will permit transgender people to undergo
gender reassignment surgery starting next January, according
to local newspaper Saigon Liberation on Monday.
Under the decree,
recently submitted to the government by the Vietnamese
Ministry of Health, transgender people (whose psychological
self is in conflict with the social expectations for
the physical sex they were born with) and people
having unclear gender identity can undergo gender
reassignment surgery.
The decree also
stipulates that people with clear gender identity,
including gays and lesbians who deny heterosexual
experience, are not allowed to undergo gender
reassignment surgery.
If approved, the
decree will take effect on January 1. (The Advocate)
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