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World Progress · 2016

Sri Lanka

MedicalAffirming

Sri Lanka issues a Gender Recognition Certificate from 16 with a medical referral.

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MoH circular 01-34/2016 issues a Gender Recognition Certificate after a WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health)-aligned transformation process. Identity paperwork.

MoH — Gender Recognition Certificate (circular 01-34/2016)

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2016: MoH circular 01-34/2016 issues a Gender Recognition Certificate after a WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health)-aligned transformation process. Identity paperwork.

MoH — Gender Recognition Certificate (circular 01-34/2016)

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Sri Lanka’s circular is a certificate for the birth register, sitting on top of a WPATH-aligned medical process.

Ministry of Health circular 01-34/2016 (16 June 2016), Issuing of Gender Recognition Certificate for Transgender Community (listed on the National STD/AIDS Control Programme circular page). The certificate is issued so a person can change sex and name on the birth certificate under the Birth and Death Registration Ordinance. The clinician certifies diagnosis of transsexualism (ICD-10) and that the person underwent the gender transformation process according to WPATH standards of care and completed social-role transition.

That is Affirming of the medical pathway.

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