Thinking of Changing Your Gender in Mexico City? That's Not a Problem. El Daily Post
go to original February 6, 2016

Women show off their modified birth certificates recognizing their new gender identity. (Cuartoscuro)

Last year, a Mexico City resident in her early 20s received some advice from her grandmother. Everybody, she was told, has a right to live with dignity.

Thus encouraged, Jessica, as she’s now named, took the step she had wanted to take for some time. She left behind the masculine identity she was born with, changed her name, and started the physical transformation to become the woman she always assumed she was.

What’s newsworthy about Jessica’s metamorphosis is that she could do it relatively easily, with a minimum of red tape and few artificial obstacles place in her path by judgmental authorities.

That’s because Jessica, and more than a thousand others in Mexico City, was the beneficiary of a streamlined gender change process approved by Mexico City’s legislature in November of 2014 and implemented in January of 2015.

In the year-plus that the new law has been in effect, 1,159 Mexico City residents have legally changed their gender and name.

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