More Steps Forward

There are only a few states where you can change the gender on your gender markers without surgery, but now Quebec Province in Canada just passed a law allowing trans-people to does that, according to reports the Quebec's National Assembly voted to accept Bill 35 and its amendments last Wednesday.

The The Link wrote last week that,

Bill 35, “An Act to amend the Civil Code as regards civil status, successions and the publication of rights,” would strike the Quebec Civil Code requirement in Article 73 to have a change of sex designation published in a newspaper. The bill is in committee at the National Assembly, with less than a week left in the current session.

And according to unpublished reports the bill also allows a trans-person to change their gender markers without it having to have surgery.

Meanwhile, Taiwan is allowing trans-people to change their gender more easily,

Taiwan to allow legal gender changes without transitioning
Transgender and intersex individuals will have much freer choice
Gay Star News
09 December 2013
By Derek Yiu

Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare has decided to allow people to change their legal gender without transitioning.

After a heated 3-hour debate today (Dec 9), the ministry concludes that individuals intending to change their legal gender need not go through any medical procedures, including psychiatric evaluation.

Which I think is the most liberal policy that I know of, most countries requires you to be at least under a doctor’s care.