Is there a clear legal difference between homosexuality and transgenderism?
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Do the same laws that ban homosexuality apply for trans individuals?
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Laws prohibiting discrimination on the ground of gender identity
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In which areas?
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What is the name of this law? (if applicable - please give chapter and section)
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When was the law introduced? (DD/MM/YYYY)
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Is transgenderism classified as an illness?
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What is the name of this law? (if applicable - please give chapter and section)
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When was the law introduced? (DD/MM/YYYY)
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Were there individuals in jail or punished for being transgender in the last twelve months in your country?
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Is sex reassignment treatment and/or surgery under legal control?
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What is the name of this law? (if applicable - please give chapter and section)
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Is it possible to change your gender on official documents?
Yes, but only with sex reassignment surgery
What are the requirements for one to change their gender?
The Women’s Charter, available at http:// statutes.agc.gov.sg, provides for a transsexual to marry in the sex indicated on his or her national identity card. For many years, perhaps from the 1970s when SRS began in Singapore, the government began the practice of changing the sex designation on national identity cards when a surgeon certified that SRS had been completed. The birth certificate was not changed. It is treated as an historical document. The issuance of a marriage license had required the production of birth certificates. That was changed in 1996 by an amendment to the Women’s Charter making the national identity card the relevant document for a marriage license, not the birth certificate. The only condition for the change in national identity card is the medical certification of the completion of SRS. Marriage would, of course, be blocked for some one already married.
The Women’s Charter, Chapter 353, reads, in part:
12 (1) A marriage solemnized in Singapore or elsewhere between persons who, at the date of the marriage, are not respectively male and female shall be void.
(2) It is hereby declared that subject to sections 5, 9, 10, 11 and 22 a marriage solemnized in Singapore or elsewhere between a person who has undergone sex re-assignment procedure and any person of the opposite sex is and shall be deemed always to have been a valid marriage.
(3) For the purpose of this section
(a) the sex of any party to a marriage as stated at the time of the marriage in his or her identity card issued under the National Registration Act (Cap. 201) shall be prima facie evidence of the sex of the party; and
(b) a person who has undergone a sex re-assignment procedure shall be identified as being of the sex to which the person has been reassigned.
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Is it possible to change your name on official documents?
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What are the requirements to change your name?
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Does the law ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity in employment?
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Laws banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity in social services
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Trans individuals able to serve in the armed forces
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Country grants asylum on the basis of gender identity
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Does a law mention this?
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Is it often applied?
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How regularly?
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When was the last time it was applied?
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Have the country’s citizens been granted asylum on the basis of gender identity?
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Are hate crimes based on gender identity considered an aggravating circumstance?
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