The gender identity as an emergent right

Authors

  • Octavio Salazar Benítez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.169.03

Keywords:

Gender identity, autonomy, transexuality, equality, personality, pathologization

Abstract

Among the new rights recognized by some of the latest statutory reforms, we should include the so-called right to gender identity. This right, only considered by the State legislator regarding the registration process for sex rectification, is still under development by several autonomic legislators. This regulatory framework confronts us with the double challenge raisen by this new law at the legal systems: the overcoming of the pathologizing perspective of transsexuality as well as the challenge to the male / female binary system from which the rights onwership is built.

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