| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2008 
Mexico City Transsexuals Can Get New Gender IDs
 EFE
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| | A transsexual poses during the Gay Pride Parade in Mexico City, Saturday, June 30, 2007. (Eduardo Verdugo/AP) | | |
Mexico City - Transsexuals in Mexico City can get new - and altered - identity documents starting Monday if they provide a birth certificate and a medical certificate to local authorities thanks to a new municipal ordinance.
Those eligible for the benefit are those people who have a report issued by two specialists certifying that they have undergone - or are in the process of undergoing - a sex-change procedure, whether or not it involves surgery.
One of the promoters of the initiative is municipal assemblyman Jorge Carlos Diaz Cuervo, of the Alternative Social Democrat party, who told Efe that the aim of the reform is to put a halt to discrimination.
The 42 family courts in Mexico City will receive the requests to modify the name and sex on the birth certificates of interested transsexuals, who must prove that they are adult Mexican citizens who have subjected themselves to "a process of (sexual) reclassification."
The leftist-led Mexico City assembly in recent years has approved some avant-garde and controversial reforms, including the law eliminating the penalties on having an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and the cohabitation law that permits unions between homosexuals.
The assembly also approved the Advance Intent Law by which terminally ill or injured capital residents can elect to reject medical procedures that might prolong their lives - and presumably their agony - and instruct authorities to allow them to die naturally without any medical intervention. |
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