From Invisibility to Trans-cendence: Standards of International Human Rights Law Applicable to Trans People’s Claims for Gender Identity Recognition in Peru (and elsewhere)

Twenty-first century International Human Rights Law calls for States to provide trans people with access to legal mechanisms for obtaining recognition of their gender identity. What conditions should such procedures meet? Which requirements are forbidden nowadays? Do these standards apply to trans c...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Zelada, Carlos J.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25676
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/iusetveritas/article/view/25676
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Identidad de género
Trans
Personas no binarias
Autodeterminación
Patologización
Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Naciones Unidas
Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos
Gender identity
Non-binary persons
Self-determination
Pathologization
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
United Nations
European Court of Human Rights
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Summary:Twenty-first century International Human Rights Law calls for States to provide trans people with access to legal mechanisms for obtaining recognition of their gender identity. What conditions should such procedures meet? Which requirements are forbidden nowadays? Do these standards apply to trans children and adolescents? Do they apply to trans foreigners? Do nonbinary identities have a place in these discussions? Bringing together legal perspectives and first-person accounts, this paper offers an exhaustive systematization of the strides forward made in the Universal, inter-American and European systems for the recognition of diverse and dissident gender identities. It also provides concrete examples of the application of these standards in countries that still lack a gender identity law, such as Peru.