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From the Liveblog of
Monday, January 19, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Monday, January 19, 2015
Israel to allow sex change on IDs without surgery
Israel’s Interior Ministry will allow citizens to change the gender designation on their national identity cards without having a sex-change operation.
The decision comes after the Supreme Court orders the ministry to change the gender designation from male to female on the identity cards of two citizens. They had been allowed to change their names prior to the court’s intervention.
The Interior Ministry agreed to change its procedure last week after meeting with officials from the Health and Justice ministries, during which the Health Ministry officials informed the participants that other countries have recognized criteria for determining that a person has changed his or her gender outside of surgery, according to the Haaretz daily.
— JTA
