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Portugal approves pro-trans policies

by Rex Wockner

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Portugal's Parliament on Feb. 17 approved a law making life easier for transsexuals.
Within a couple of weeks, those who want to change their name or legal sex can go to a civil registry office with medical proof of "gender identity disorder" and officials must process the changes within eight days.
There is no requirement of sex-reassignment surgery as a prerequisite to making the changes.
Alterations in the Marriage Registry, however, can be made only with written consent of the spouse or ex-spouse, and changes to a birth certificate of an individual's adult child require the child's approval.

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