Legal status of transsexuals to be alleviated?
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
18.06.2015 15:36
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A look at draft legislation on gender identity.
A parliamentary subcommittee has finished examining a bill regulating gender recognition in Poland.
MP Anna Grodzka. Photo: wikimedia commons/Adrian Grycuk
The bill, which was prepared by transsexual MP Anna Grodzka, together with the Trans-Fuzja foundation, has yet to be approved by the Polish parliament. There has been no separate law in Poland regulating gender recognition so far.
Agnieszka Łaszczuk spoke to President of the Trans-Fuzja foundation Wiktor Dynarski about the bill and legal aspects of being a transsexual person in Poland.
“To actually be recognized… within the gender that constitutes your gender identity, you have to sue your parents in a civil court case,” the President explains.
“What will change definitely is that the parents will no longer be involved in the process,” he says.
“This would be what it should be, the process between the person and the state.”