Hong Kong transsexual wins right to use female name

Glutter’s Hong Kong

I know there are plenty more important news to talk about, like playing the national anthem on TV (I don’t really care either way to be honest. I actually do find it educational because really I didn’t even know what my national anthem sounded like until now, and I think I should) Kerry Beating Bush or Not Beating Bush in the last debate, (I realize I don’t care either. I will if dipshit II wins tho), and probably the funny and interesting things Cheung-Mo and Albert dear is up to in Legco. (By the way I saw our leading revolutionary legislative counciller come out of Insomnia of all places at about 3 in the morning last Friday. I gave him a disaproving look, I don’t think he should hang out in bar only known for gross expat men and the I-am-not-really-a-prostitute-prostitutes.) but but.. I actually found this most interesting. I didn’t see any Hong Kong papers reporting it, but to be honest, I haven’t been reading-reading them either, just been mostly glancing at the wire feeds. I mean, if the law allows for those operations then there is absolutely no reason not to allow the name change. Paper work, they are always such a pain.

Friday, October 15, 2004
Hong Kong transsexual wins right to use female name

“A transsexual woman said Thursday she has won a landmark fight to list only her female name and add her gender to secondary school certificates after filing complaints about employment discrimination. The woman, who would agree to be identified only as Ms. J, said her school certificates revealed that she had been a man before undergoing a sex-change operation in 2000. She was allowed to add her female name to the documents, but authorities retained her old male name.”

“Ms. J said when she sought to have her school records changed, the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority refused, so she went to the Equal Opportunities Commission. The commission mediated her case, and the exam authority eventually agreed to put only Ms. J’s new name on the school certificates, while listing her gender as female.”

“An exam authority spokeswoman, Linda Yu, denied that the group mistreated Ms. J, saying its workers merely followed procedure, but she acknowledged they weren’t sensitive enough to Ms. J’s needs. “Handling this case is a learning experience for us,” she said.”

The rest of the story:
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14061&sd=10/15/04