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Mexico City's
Legislative Assembly voted 37-17 (no abstentions) to amend the
city's Civil and Civil Procedures Codes to allow trans people to
change the name in their birth certificates, that will in turn
allow them to modify their voting cards, passports, driving
licenses and other documents.
All that the procedure requires is an affidavit by two
medical/psychological experts stating that the individual in
question is undergoing a sex-reassignment process but not
necessarily geared towards surgery.
Activists trans followed the discussion, as well as the
President of the City's Human Rights Commission that supports
them. PAN – the right wing/Catholic fundamentalist party that
rules the country at the federal level (but not the city)-
opposed the bill as a bloc.
Travesti, transgender and transsexual groups welcomed the
measure as a first step. "Gender identity" has been defined by
this bill as the personal conviction of belonging to the male or
female gender and understood as fixed, involuntary and in
occasions different from the original sex. "Reassignment for
sex/gender consistency" has been defined as the professional
interventions that, as a process, help an individual to achieve
partial or full consistency between her/his physical appearance
and her/his gender identity
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