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Hundreds of Vietnamese transgender people request new identification

Xinhua, August 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nearly 600 transgender people in Vietnam, who have underwent sex reassignment surgery, have proposed having their names and identification papers changed in accordance with their reassigned gender, local media reported Wednesday.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has suggested adjustment of the transgender people's identification be added to a draft amendment to the Civil Code as the country's current regulations do not allow the modification of transgender people's identification.

The only exception is for people who have a gender which is different from their looks due to defects in chromosomes or genitals, the online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported.

Studies presented at a seminar on transgender people at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities in June last year showed that it is usually hard for young transgender people to access social and health services as well as land jobs because they do not have appropriate identification.

Transgender people face significant challenges because their appearance differs from the image on their ID cards. Endi