Gender identity as a right: A study on the legalization of sex change in the birth certificates of the transsexual Filipinos by reason of sexual reassignment surgery and its potential legal effects

• Main Authors: Sarmiento, Erika C., Tan, Trishia C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Gender transition > Law and legislation; Gender identity; Sexual orientation; Commercial Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11349
• Institution: De La Salle University

Sexual orientation and gender identity continues to be one of the most controversial issues that society faces today. The lesbians, gays, bisexual and transsexuals 9LGBT) are the constant targets of prejudice and discrimination due to the fact that they somehow disrupt the status quo as regards to t...