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I woke up to this and you know, I did a little dance. Since this happened a few hours ago, in the middle of the night of most of Europe and the US, mainstream media hasn’t yet picked on it much.\u00a0From\u00a0\u00a0San Jose Mercury News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina\u2014Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The measure also gives people the right to specify how their gender is listed at the civil registry when their physical characteristics don’t match how they see themselves.<\/p>\n

Senators approved the Gender Identity law by a vote of 55-0, with one abstention and more than a dozen senators declaring themselves absent\u2014the same margin that approved a “death with dignity” law earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

President Cristina Fernandez threw her support behind the law and is expected to sign it. She has often said how\u00a0proud she is that Argentina became Latin America’s first nation to legalize gay marriage two years ago, enabling thousands of same-sex couples to wed and enjoy the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples.<\/p>\n

For many, gender rights were the next step.<\/p>\n

Any adult will now be able to officially change his or her gender, image and birth name without having to get approval from doctors or judges\u2014and without having to undergo physical changes beforehand, as many U.S. jurisdictions require.<\/p>\n

“It’s saying you can change your gender legally without having to change your body at all. That’s unheard of,” said Katrina Karkazis, a Stanford University medical anthropologist and bioethicst who wrote a book, “Fixing Sex,"\u00a0about the medical and legal treatment of people whose physical characteristics don’t fully match their gender identity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The law, I should add, is the only one of its kind in the world in that it relays on a person’s lived experience rather than on the opinion of medical professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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