The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons
- Title
- The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons
- Creator
- Jens M. Scherpe (editor)
- Publisher
- Intersentia
- Location
- Cambridge, UK
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions. The question has therefore shifted to what the requirements for such a change of the legal sex/gender should be. This book examines these thus far under-researched questions, namely what the full legal consequences of a change of legal sex/gender should be, for example with regard to existing legal relationships such as marriages and registered partnerships, but also concerning children and parentage. This book is the result of an international research project, including not only national reports from 14 European and non-European jurisdictions but also two chapters that look at legal sex/gender changes from a Christian perspective and one chapter from a medical-psychological perspective. The final comparative chapter compares and contrasts the different approaches and requirements and makes recommendations for best practice and law reform.
- Source
- Access book + e-book