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Summary: An outdated law and its impact on transgender people ; Registering gender ; A new law ; Five proposed amendments
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Recommendations: To the government of the Netherlands: To the gender teams at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam and the Groningen University Hospital ; To Council for the Judiciary (Raad voor de Rechtspraak) and the Dutch Association for the Judiciary (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtspraak) ; To health insurance companies ; To the American Psychiatric Association
Recognition of gender identity : the Dutch legal framework: Being transgender in the Netherlands ; The Netherlands' claim to being a role model on LGBT rights ; Article 28 of the Civil Code : conditions for recognition of gender identity court procedures ; Sex reassignment surgery ; SRS as a medical necessity ; Surgery imposed by the State ; State-enforced sterilization ; Convention on the recognition of decisions recording a sex reassignment
"It is like your life is on hold": Waiting lists ; A name to match an identity
Living with the wrong identity papers: The identity card requirement ; The register of civil status records ; Getting around the GBA : informal solutions ; "They don't believe that I am who I say I am" ; Employment
Evolving norms, evolving practices: Calls to change the law ; Promises to change the law ; The right to private life and the right to physical integrity ; The framework for legal recognition of gender identity in other countries ; The Yogyakarta principles ; Children
Legal recognition of the gender identity of gender variant people: Suppressing the gender marker on identity documents ; Article 8 of the ECHR and the position of gender variant people ; Scope for legal reform in the Netherlands
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Relevant provisions of Book 1 of the Dutch Civil Code: Relevant provisions of Book 1 of the Dutch Civil Code in original language.
Methodology
Recommendations: To the government of the Netherlands: To the gender teams at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam and the Groningen University Hospital ; To Council for the Judiciary (Raad voor de Rechtspraak) and the Dutch Association for the Judiciary (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtspraak) ; To health insurance companies ; To the American Psychiatric Association
Recognition of gender identity : the Dutch legal framework: Being transgender in the Netherlands ; The Netherlands' claim to being a role model on LGBT rights ; Article 28 of the Civil Code : conditions for recognition of gender identity court procedures ; Sex reassignment surgery ; SRS as a medical necessity ; Surgery imposed by the State ; State-enforced sterilization ; Convention on the recognition of decisions recording a sex reassignment
"It is like your life is on hold": Waiting lists ; A name to match an identity
Living with the wrong identity papers: The identity card requirement ; The register of civil status records ; Getting around the GBA : informal solutions ; "They don't believe that I am who I say I am" ; Employment
Evolving norms, evolving practices: Calls to change the law ; Promises to change the law ; The right to private life and the right to physical integrity ; The framework for legal recognition of gender identity in other countries ; The Yogyakarta principles ; Children
Legal recognition of the gender identity of gender variant people: Suppressing the gender marker on identity documents ; Article 8 of the ECHR and the position of gender variant people ; Scope for legal reform in the Netherlands
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Relevant provisions of Book 1 of the Dutch Civil Code: Relevant provisions of Book 1 of the Dutch Civil Code in original language.