Taipei High Administrative Court Rules in Defense of Soft Medical Model for Legal Gender Change
Yesterday, the Taipei High Administrative Court issued their ruling on Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights strategic litigation plaintiff Vivi’s court appeal to change her legal gender without providing proof of sexual organ removal surgery. While the THAC’s ruling condemned the surgery requirement for changing one’s legal gender as unconstitutional, it ordered the Daan District Household Registration Office reprocess Vivi’s legal gender change application in accordance to the recommendations set out in the Supreme Administrative Court’s September 2023 ruling, which requires medical evidence of the stability of one’s gender identity...