August 19, 2009
The nation’s highest court removed some legal barriers confronting transsexuals making the switch from male to female.
The Supreme Court said yesterday that a transsexual is no longer required to complete or be legally exempted from military service to change his sexual affiliation on legal documents.
“We have decided to remove the requirement because it is hard for us to accurately judge whether a man is seeking to change his sex as a method of draft-dodging or not,” said Judge Kim Hyeon-bo of the National Court Administration. “The link between draft-dodging and sex change is hard to know, so we have decided to remove the requirement.”
The court also decided to change legal documents of a transsexual person that stated the sex change. From now on, it will be marked as a correction, the court said, in order to protect the transsexual population’s privacy.
Since it granted the first legal permission for a transsexual person to change his or her sexual affiliation in 2006, the Supreme Court has established a list of requirements. Only an unmarried, childless person who is older than 20 is allowed to seek a legal sex change.
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