{"id":8527,"date":"2017-10-11T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:04:30","slug":"greek-parliament-approves-law-allowing-legal-gender-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/greek-parliament-approves-law-allowing-legal-gender-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek parliament approves law allowing legal gender change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 11 – Greece’s parliament has approved a new law that will make it easier for people to change their legal gender.<\/p>\n

Citizens over the age of 15 will now be able to change their gender with a court ruling and without requiring a medical operation.<\/p>\n

LGBT activists said the new law was an improvement, but criticised it for not doing enough to establish “full self-determination” for transgender people.<\/p>\n

The Greek Orthodox Church said the move was “immoral”.<\/p>\n

The bill, which passed by 171 votes in Greece’s 300-seat parliament, removes medical requirements from the process of changing legal gender.<\/p>\n

Under the old law, those wanting to change their gender on official documents had to undergo sex-change surgery and medical tests.<\/p>\n

This was heavily criticised by human rights groups and LGBT activists. ILGA-Europe, an LGBT rights advocacy group,\u00a0described it\u00a0<\/a>as an “outdated and oppressive practice that violates individuals’ bodily integrity”.<\/p>\n