Reduces waiting time for transgender sex change: "a necessary step in the fight for rights"

Waiting times for sex change are currently two years, but due to a revision of the Ministry of Health's procedure, the times will be shortened to several months. This concerns transgender people who want to change the sex section without having surgery, in order to reduce the bureaucracy in the sex change process they are going through

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Waiting time for transgender identification clause will be shortened - according to the Health Ministry's circular released today (Thursday). The waiting time for sex change in government records is about two years, and is now expected to last for several months. Vows who wish to change the sex section registration without having to undergo surgery as long as they are 18 years of age or older, and have "a proven past in the gender identity requested for at least six months from the date of referral to the committee".

To date, a minimum waiting period of two years has been required from the committee to obtain approval for a sex change. Following the demands of the Transitions - Sustainable Transition to the Trans community, and backed by the proud community organizations, the Ministry of Health amended the procedure.

According to the document, "The change in the registration of specific sex in the Population Register will only take place after the Commission confirms that a person has actually changed its sex. In the Population Register. "

In order to obtain the approval, the applicant must reach a committee consisting of a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist and endocrinologist. The committee will discuss transgender requests seeking to change the sex details in the Population Register according to acceptable professional standards. Each member of the committee will schedule meetings with the various experts whose opinions are required for approval.

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The change applicant will have at least one meeting with committee members. "This meeting will discuss the procedure for changing the gender of the applicant, and he will be given the opportunity to be heard before the committee. If a member of the committee wishes to receive medical information, in addition to the submitted, he may request the applicant," the Ministry of Health said. It also states that "the applicant may attach a lender on his behalf - a professional from the field or a close family member", and "may also present to the committee any document, including an external expert opinion".

Ella Amst, co-executive director of the Transition Organization, said "It is important to improve the existing mechanism, but we will continue to work so that the right to self-determination of people on the trans spectrum, not through a committee, is also reflected in the possibility of changing the population register."

Ohad Haski, executive director of the LGBT Association, said that "publishing a circular that will reduce some of the unnecessary bureaucracy imposed on thousands of trans and trans people is a necessary and important step. The state. There is another long work to be done in the authorities until the discrimination is over and we will continue to fight for each and every one until we get there. "