Transsexuals Will Have Easier Legal Sex Change

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Male-turned-female transsexuals will no longer need to fulfill their military service before changing their legal sex in family records.

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it had revised a regulation on transsexuals' legal sex change approval to delete the clause stipulating that when a man changes his legal sex to female, he should have already fulfilled military service or been exempted from it.

The clause was designed to prevent men from dodging the mandatory service by getting a sex change. Male-turned-female transsexuals, who have not changed their legal sex, used to be exempted from the service due to their "mental illness."

"It was not easy to tell whether the applicants aimed to dodge the service or not, so we decided to remove the clause," a court official said.

The revision will enable male-to-female transsexuals to change the records more easily, he said.

Military service was one of seven conditions that the court prepared as a guideline in approving transsexuals' legal sex change after its first approval in September 2006. The guideline says an applicant should be aged 20 and over, have never been married and have no children; have suffered disparity between his or her biological sex and legal sex; have undergone a sex change operation; and be unlikely to change to his or her original sex again.

It also includes that the applicant has no intention to take advantage of the legal sex change in crimes; the change should not have grave influence on his or her family relationship or have negative influence on society; and the applicant, if a male-turned-female, should have fulfilled military service or been exempted from it.

As to the guideline, the National Human Rights Commission recommended last November the top court revise or delete it, saying it infringed on transsexuals' human rights. The court accepted the military service clause among the guidelines, along with the clause on influence on family relationship, and deleted them.

The number of those changing their legal sex is on the rise 10 people in 2006, 15 in 2007 and 29 last year. Among them, 48 changed from male to female, while six did so from female to male, according to the court.

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[julili.livejournal.com]

LoL
Heechul

[lovegraciie.livejournal.com]

twin comment! hahaha.

[julili.livejournal.com]

LOL!!
first time it happens to me!!
Hey twin!!

[lovegraciie.livejournal.com]

LOL heenim.

[chiddle.livejournal.com]

no no no no no, HAH!

[sabaku-no-leti.livejournal.com]

But he hates cross-dressing! They had to force him by tying him on the desk to take his clothes off and...unf

[ficcy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that lovely mental image. <3

[angelic-ice.livejournal.com]

LMFAO.

[x-saru-x.livejournal.com]

LOL Heechul XD
Pabo!♫

[finalfantasyo13.livejournal.com]

lol Hessica.

[ai-baka.livejournal.com]

is lovely XDDD

[finalfantasyo13.livejournal.com]

Isn't She? lol :D

[ai-baka.livejournal.com]

yesh! sexiest and cutest pabo ever! XD

[cloud-honey.livejournal.com]

Heechul and GD are happier now.

[ai-baka.livejournal.com]

ehh? those 2 are real guys right? -_-+
i had the 0_o reaction when i saw GD XD

[shonen-key.livejournal.com]

lol it depends, I guess. If they're happen to be pretty girls, they might look attractive. Otherwise..

[shonen-key.livejournal.com]

hehe *pats*

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Is anyone even reading the post and not commenting on just Heenim? LOL.

Male-turned-female transsexuals, who have not changed their legal sex, used to be exempted from the service due to their "mental illness."

O okay Korea. Mental illness.

[shonen-key.livejournal.com]

That made me sad :/

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

That made me slightly angry ngl.

[shonen-key.livejournal.com]

After reading the article about the woman with mental illness that was posted here a few months ago, this doesn't surprise me anymore *sigh*

[microkiss.livejournal.com]

ikr

[liime-arix.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[microkiss.livejournal.com]

i laughed.

[black-silver.livejournal.com]

ugh.

[steve-tales.livejournal.com]

Made me think ... wow the things people will do to get out of military service!

Wait a second... didn't Klinger go through all this on MASH?

[xinliyoushu.livejournal.com]

That pissed me off. -_-

[nemo-88.livejournal.com]

the applicant has no intention to take advantage of the legal sex change in crimes
what does that even mean?

this article is making my head hurt. but any change that makes the lives of Korean transsexuals easier is welcomed by me.

[fireatwill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I got like... one sentence out of the article.

[vindicated21.livejournal.com]

while six did so from female to male, according to the court.

wow. i wonder why.

oh Heechul, stay classy.

[bokchil.livejournal.com]

For the same reason there were male to female transsexuals?

ngl, I want to be a dude, but therapy and stuff for it is beyond expensive and I have to pay for university right now.

[maisoui.livejournal.com]

The clause was designed to prevent men from dodging the mandatory service by getting a sex change.
Jeez, I doubt anyone is so desperate to get out of military service that they'd undergo an operation like that.

[bellaprincess9.livejournal.com]

lol that is really pathetic and wrong. I'm sure they could figure something else out.

[jyurian21.livejournal.com]

Wow, why did I read sex tape? :| someone smack me LOL

[quinnsan.livejournal.com]

I saw that picture of Heechul and just died laughing. xDD

Because it fits so well with this article. xDD

[xinliyoushu.livejournal.com]

MTE

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

Not sure if I missed it in the article, but what about female to male? Do they have to complete military service?