By KTT | Apr 16, 2015 (Defend the Defenders)
Vietnam’s officials have considered allowing transgender in special cases when they discussed the amendment to the Civil Law at a recent conference in Hanoi under the support by the U.S.’s Agency for International Development (USAID).
Officials from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Justice had agreed that the government should allow medical stations to carry out gender reassignment surgery (GRS), the Phap Luat Viet Nam newspaper reported Thursday.
Regulations on the subject and progress of the surgeries must be carefully discussed, officials from the two ministries said.
Nguyen Huy Quang, head of the Ministry of Health’s Legal Department, said that authorized agencies should not regulate rights to transgender in the revised law as Vietnam has not recognized transgender yet.
Vietnam with a population of over 90 million has about 1.65 million people identified as LGBT. The country has yet to legalize same-sex marriage on the ground that the practice goes against its traditional culture.
In November 2013, lawmakers agreed to the government’s draft amendment to the Law on Marriage and Family to not “yet recognize marriages among LGBT.” While civil unions between LGBT couples are not yet legalized, the government will no longer ban the act.
Thanks to significant support from foreign organizations over the past years, discrimination against LGBT has reduced.
But demand for transgender is on the rise. So far, there are nearly 1,000 people went to have GRS abroad.
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April 16, 2015
Vietnam Considers Transgender in Special Cases amid Rising LGBT Community
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Vietnam with a population of over 90 million has about 1.65 million people identified as LGBT. The country has yet to legalize same-sex marriage on the ground that the practice goes against its traditional culture.
By KTT | Apr 16, 2015 (Defend the Defenders)
Vietnam’s officials have considered allowing transgender in special cases when they discussed the amendment to the Civil Law at a recent conference in Hanoi under the support by the U.S.’s Agency for International Development (USAID).
Officials from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Justice had agreed that the government should allow medical stations to carry out gender reassignment surgery (GRS), the Phap Luat Viet Nam newspaper reported Thursday.
Regulations on the subject and progress of the surgeries must be carefully discussed, officials from the two ministries said.
Nguyen Huy Quang, head of the Ministry of Health’s Legal Department, said that authorized agencies should not regulate rights to transgender in the revised law as Vietnam has not recognized transgender yet.
Vietnam with a population of over 90 million has about 1.65 million people identified as LGBT. The country has yet to legalize same-sex marriage on the ground that the practice goes against its traditional culture.
In November 2013, lawmakers agreed to the government’s draft amendment to the Law on Marriage and Family to not “yet recognize marriages among LGBT.” While civil unions between LGBT couples are not yet legalized, the government will no longer ban the act.
Thanks to significant support from foreign organizations over the past years, discrimination against LGBT has reduced.
But demand for transgender is on the rise. So far, there are nearly 1,000 people went to have GRS abroad.