Revolutionary changes proposed to draft Gender Affirmation Law | Society | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
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Medical interventions are now non-obligatory for people who want to be recognised as transgender, and trans men are eligible for maternity leave should they be pregnant.

Eighty representatives from the National Assembly, Ministries, NGOs and UN organisations gave their recommendations for the Gender Affirmation Law, which was drafted in June and is being amended by the Ministry of Health to present to the National Assembly Standing Committee this year.

The Draft Gender Affirmation Law will enable transgender people to apply for recognition without having undergone sex change surgery, and they can choose to have sex change surgery or not.

Familial ties to parents and partners are kept intact, including foster children. All certificates and diplomas' rights are kept, and transgender people will be eligible to compete in sports. They are not obligated to be sterilised in genital operations unless they want to.

Transgender people, according to the draft, should also be able to marry their new gender after recognition. Trans men, should they get pregnant, are eligible for maternity leave according to labour law and social insurance policies.

The draft also forbids human trafficking, sexual assault, and discriminative acts against transgender people, such as expulsion from school or termination of jobs due to being transgender.

Requirements for medical facilities to implement sex change surgery and hormone therapy for sex change are also included in the draft, according to the Ministry of Health.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    There really is a sense that despite occasional bad takes and difficulties AES states really are pushing forward both socially and economically.

    • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The bag got supremely fumbled in the 4th quarter of the 20th century; imagine where things would be today if the GDR was still a thing; but the situation appears to be improving.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        We've seen this on multiple fronts, from Social Progressiveness, literacy, and Women's Rights, all the way to our favourite grandson of a serf :yuri:

  • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go: let's hope this is able to pass without too much of an issue

    Edit:

    Although Vietnam made progress in ending LGBTQ discrimination, especially for transgender people, when the right to change sex was recognised in 2015, the affirmation and recognition of transgender people are currently not applicable in reality. The legal aspects must be improved to make access to social, education, medical and occupational services for transgender people fair

    :shapiro-poplar: material conditions don't care about your feelings