Court rules surgery not mandatory for legal gender change
A South Korean regional court ruled that transgender people can change their legal gender without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, stating that requiring surgery violates their physical integrity and right to live according to their gender identity. The ruling applies to five transgender individuals who had been receiving hormone therapy. The court noted that while guidelines recommend surgery, they are not mandatory criteria, and criticized past rulings that dismissed such requests.
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