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Hong Kong transgender men win ID card legal challenge

Published: 24 February 2023

Orignal link: https://thechinaproject.com/2023/02/15/hong-kong-transgender-men-win-id-card-legal-challenge/

Hong Kong transgender men win ID card legal challenge, but activists say more changes need to happen – The China Project

 

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However, when Tse and Q applied to change the gender status on their Hong Kong ID cards, the government rejected their request, citing their failure to meet a requirement stated in a local policy, which stipulates that a transgender person has to complete full sex reassignment surgery before changing their identity cards. For female-to-male transgender individuals, this means further operations to remove the uterus and ovaries, and construct male genitalia.

In 2018, Tse, Q, and another transgender man called R launched a legal challenge against the policy at the Court of First Instance, but the trio lost the case. Tse and Q then appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal, which was dismissed in a ruling handed down in early 2022 after Tse and Q appealed.

Tse and Q didn’t give up: They took their case to the Court of Final Appeal, the highest court in Hong Kong, where judges ruled in their favor. “Much like myself, many trans folks in Hong Kong, especially my friends who are trans men, have been longing for today’s final victory for years,” Tse told reporters outside the courthouse after winning the case on February 6.

The written judgment issued by the Court of Final Appeal recognizes that the medical procedures of genital removal and construction are “at the most invasive end of the treatment spectrum for gender dysphoria and, as the medical evidence shows, a full sex reassignment surgery is not medically required by many transgender persons (including the appellants) whose gender dysphoria has been effectively treated, and who are successfully living in their acquired gender.”

The judges also pointed out that because Tse and Q have kept a masculine outward appearance for a long period of time, the incongruence between their looks and the sex entry on their ID cards would produce “greater confusion or embarrassment, and render the gender marker’s identification function deficient.” The policy about full sex reassignment surgery was rendered unconstitutional by the court, which concluded that it harmed the pair’s dignity and violated the right to privacy protected in Hong Kong’s Bill of Rights.

Joanne Leung (梁詠恩 Liáng Yǒng’ēn), a Hong Kong trans activist who founded the Transgender Resources Center in Hong Kong and Love of Rainbow Resources, told The China Project that she welcomed the ruling and considered the written judgment as reflecting a better understanding of trans men’s needs and concerns. “For female-to-male trans people, genital removal and construction operations have a higher risk but lower success rate, and are more expensive compared with other sex reassignment surgery procedures. Many people prefer to seek hormone treatment and breast surgery only,” she said.

But Leung stressed that it is still unclear whether and to what extent the government will streamline its requirements for surgical procedures. “The judgment rules ‘full surgery’ as unnecessary, but they don’t provide a definition of the term, which opens space for interpretation,” she added.

Leung said that the Hong Kong government might end up removing the requirement over genital construction, but retain the one over genital removal, a legal practice adopted by several countries to make sure that transgender people are sterilized before making amendments on their legal documents, and avoid introducing more complicated matters into the existing legal system.

“For instance, if a trans man holds the reproductive capacity and chooses to bear a child after changing his legal sex to male, the government would then need to define the legal relationship between them and deal with subsequent legal issues,” Leung said. However, trans activist groups in many places have been criticizing the measure as violating the right of bodily integrity and autonomy of trans people. “This is a question of human rights,” Leung added.

The judgment also evaded discussing other controversial issues concerning the trans community in Hong Kong, such as an ongoing legal battle over access to public washrooms. “I think they tried to limit the scope of the ruling to information change on ID cards,” Leung said. “From a legal perspective, the right to change one’s gender listing on the ID card does not necessarily entail the right to access public bathrooms freely.”

According to Leung, the root of the problem stems from a murky definition of “legal sex” in Hong Kong’s legal system. While transgender people in the city are allowed to make changes to their ID cards, an important document that one has to show when accessing certain facilities, there’s no way for them to alter the sex entry on their birth certificates, regardless of whether they have fully transitioned or not.

“We can imagine a case in which a police officer refuses to accept a person’s ID card as the final proof of his/her legal sex and continues to ask him/her to present the birth certificate, which would contradict his/her gender marker on the ID card and the gendered facilities he/she is trying to access,” Leung said. “Without specifying the definition of legal sex, it is unclear whether this police officer breaks the law or not. This is why we have to continue pushing the government to establish a more comprehensive gender recognition act and fill the gap existing in the current legal system.”

The Future Of Legal Gender

Published: 21 July 2022

THE FUTURE OF LEGAL GENDER

A critical law reform project

The Final report has been published on May 2022! Click here for download https://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/

AIMS OF THE PROJECT

Future of Legal Gender has four key aims:

  1. To critically explore different ways of reforming legal gender status, focusing on England and Wales, while drawing on experiences in other countries, the different legal approaches taken towards other social characteristics, such as religion, disability, ethnicity and sexuality, and the views of activists, policy-makers, NGOs, lawyers and the wider public.
  2. To contribute to ongoing policy and political discussions relating to current legal reform proposals, while taking a longer-term approach.
  3. To understand different people’s hopes and worries in relation to both the current legal framework and different approaches to legal reform.
  4. To contribute to broader discussions about the changing character of gender and the contribution law can make to how it is changing.

 

跨越兩代的性別鴻溝出版計劃

Published: 21 July 2022

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《跨越兩代的性別鴻溝》出版計劃

致各位跨性別及性別非常規人士及貴家長:

大家好!本人是社會福利署的臨床心理學家林晧明。本人正著手編寫一本名為《跨越兩代的性別鴻溝》的書刋,希望透過搜集大家面對自己或子女性別身份的心路歷程,將大家一路走來的一點一滴結集成書,讓正在面對有關情況的年青人和家長更能互相明白對方的處境和想法,從而能繼續彼此愛護和體諒。

是次資料搜集會以問卷形式進行,問卷形式大致像小學生的擴充句子練習一般,請大家按自己對每個提示語句的聯想寫出你有關的體驗、想法或感受。大家只須填寫你想回應的題目,無須勉強回答所有題目。

是次資料搜集將會以不記名方式進行,並只會搜集基本的個人資料包括性別認同及年齡,不會要求你留下任何聯絡方式。所有搜集得來的資料亦只會被用作編寫此書刋,以及日後有關出版及推廣書刋的活動之用。所有問卷會在書刋出版後被銷毁。

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如有任何疑問,歡迎大家利用上述電郵與本人聯絡。多謝閣下願意為這出版計劃獻出你的一分力。

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《雌雄同歌》-跨性別 X 流行音樂 2.0

Published: 03 March 2022

在疫情嚴峻的今天,首先祝大家都平平安安,身體健康!在疫爆發前剛完成的5首音樂MV,是「跨性別資源中心」第二年與「周耀輝歌詞班(一世唔畢業)同學會」合作的成果,作為顧問團隊,實在感謝同學會的努力,讓社會更多人認識跨性別的故事,亦希望大家能夠分享給更多身邊的朋友!

Joanne 梁詠恩
跨性別資料中心主席


#雌雄同歌2|5個故事 X 5首歌 X 5部MV
▸即上YouTube聽晒五首作品:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyHaVIeKLpmeFSRnijO31YpSxM-nCEhaV



《海之子》
唱/曲 :大頭@BEAT FRIDAY
詞:陳嘉朗@BEAT FRIDAY
編/監:INK@BEAT FRIDAY
Story of: 海仔
MV Director: 麥寬郁
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《破繭》
唱/曲/編/監/詞:潘釗彤
Story of: Ashley
MV Director: 黃嘉褀
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《髮》
唱/曲/編/監/詞:鍾楚翹CHOR , Poey Fung
Story of: Bella
MV Director: 林敏
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《無拘》
唱/曲/詞:陳浩 Edward.C
編/監:Y. Siu
Story of: Zephyrus
MV Director: 謝卓軒 Larry Tse
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《這是我》
唱/詞:陳思朗@So Long
曲/編/監:陳樂霖@So Long
Story of: Elson
MV Director: 楊適榕 Kitty Yeung
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主辦機構:周耀輝歌詞班(一世唔畢業)同學會
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贊助機構:
香港特別行政區政制及內地事務局二零二一至二二年度 平等機會(性傾向)計劃*
導師陣容:
王樂儀(填詞人)
黃妍(創作歌手)
洪榮杰(電影導演)
計劃顧問:
跨性別資源中心
梁詠恩(跨性別資源中心創辦人、主席)
周耀輝(填詞人)
全力支持:
Every Life Is A Song 一個人一首歌
*免責聲明:香港特別行政區政府僅為本項目提供資助,除此之外並無參與項目。在本刊物/活動
內容(或由項目小組成員)表達的任何意見,均不代表香港特別行政區政府立場。
Transgender Resource Center 跨性別資源中心
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#一世唔畢業 #周耀輝歌詞班
#王樂儀 #黃妍 #洪榮杰
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#跨性別資源中心 #TGR #一個人一首歌 #hkbualumni
 

Women of Power 2021

Published: 03 December 2021

跨性別資源中心主席梁詠恩,很榮幸獲Prestige Hong Kong雜誌選為其中一位年度女性Women of Power 2021,梁主席表示:「作為一位跨性別者,我一直努力於讓社會看見性別的多元色彩,我不會覺得自己在性別重置後就是一位女性,因為我認為,女性的定義並非在於其生理構造,而是一個身分,讓我們在社會上能夠同心協力,打造的一個更和諧完美的社會。」

The chairperson of TGR honored to be selected as one of the "Women of Power 2021" by Prestige Hong Kong Magazine. Joanne said:"As a transgender person, I have been spending my life effort to let our society see the beauty of gender diversity. I won't say the sex reassignment surgery has turned me into a woman. For me, the definition of women is an identity that allows us to work together to create a fair and harmonious society without barriers."

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#WomenOfPower2021
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#TheHariHK
#SAUVEREIGN
#UOB
#VEUVECLICQUOT

 

機構聲明:拒絕服務條款 Declaration: Refuse of service right

Published: 08 November 2021

今天機構的WhatsApp差不多在同一時間收到了兩位跨性別者的查詢,一位我們聊了很久,也十分愉快。另一位希望我們能夠為他寫證明信作申請BNO更改性別之用,我們很有耐性的為他解釋怎樣可以處理,他說看到我們的一個YouTube視頻,說要這個服務。我解釋若要我們寫信,需要與當事人面對面見過面,而且要接觸過一年以上(依照BNO的原則),才可以為他開出證明,照現在的情況我們幫不上忙,跟著他就惡言相向。我們為了保護機構的正常運作,及以免浪費時間資源,就將他封鎖了。

我想向大家解釋,我們過往提供免費的服務,都是用機構其他收入,向使用者額外提供的,並非是免費午餐。若有不滿,大可找其他人幫忙,我們過往的付出,已令機彈盡量絕,現在已無任何有支助的項目在手,亦因為不少在機構中說幫過手的義工,為機構帶來了嚴重的傷害,我們已停止大部分實體的服務項目了。現在TGR仍然勉力支撐為有需要的跨性別者提供服務,懇請不要濫用我們的服務及愛心,我們會衡量將力量留給值得幫助的人,本機構有權拒絕提供任何服務予不珍惜者。

We received two enquiries through our official Whatsapp today. One of them was a pleasant and enjoyable conversation that we will keep in touch in the future. The other one was about the process for gender change on BNO. The enquirer learned about the service from our YouTube video, and thus reached us to know more related details. 

We explained to them that we have to know the person for at least a year (according to the BNO application requirement), in which we meet face to face, before we may issue the letter for gender change on BNO. Therefore, we are not able to provide the service for the time being. So instead, we suggested seeking assistance from professionals listed on our website.

Unfortunately the enquirer was not satisfied with our reply and got back with insolent comments about our service. The contact was finally blocked for the sake of smooth and sound operation of our Whatsapp channel.

We would like to clarify that the free services we provide are in fact self-funded, meaning that they are not “free of cost”. Since we are no longer sponsored, our financial condition is turning shaky. Moreover, we did experience aggravation caused by some of our ex-volunteers, leading to a halt of many actual services.

Still, TGR has a mission to stand for and to be the support for the transgender group. However, we would like to see no abuse of our effort and devotion. We will allocate our cherished resources for the ones in need. We reserve the right to reject any service abusers.

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