“Transgender people in Uruguay are celebrating after the country’s Congress passed a comprehensive trans law yesterday (18 October).
The law brings in a host of new rights for transgender people.
Most notably, trans people can now self-identify their gender and update their legal name, without approval from a judge.
The new law also creates scholarships for trans people to access education, as well as sets up affirmative action. It also now acknowledges the self-identification of non-binary people.
The comprehensive law also creates a monthly pension for transgender people born before 1975. This is a way of making reparations for trans people who were targeted by the government during the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985.
The reparations are effective of 1 January this year and affect anyone born before 31 December 1975.
The new law also requires government services to employ a minimum of 1% of the transgender population.
62 of 88 senators voted in favor of the new law.”
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Trans people in Uruguay can now self-identify their gender, without surgery
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