A Convention on Gender

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE
A Convention on Gender

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Sionis Prioratus

Description: AWED by the progress the World Assembly has made in Civil Rights;

AWARE that in spite of said progress, there are still persons who, while free from discrimination, are denied their basic self-sense of personhood & identity, an abuse often beginning in the earliest infancy;

FURTHER AWARE said denials are a source of untold countless horrors, among them depression & suicide;

DESIROUS of eliminating those horrors;

IT IS ESTABLISHED:

  1. Definitions:

• “Majoritarian genders (MG)”: The most prevalent genders found on any given sapient species (e.g. female & male) defined not only by genetic and/or anatomical features, but also by cultural roles each culture usually ascribes them. This resolution does not in any way deny that many sapient species do not have dichotomy in gender; but may differ in number of prevalent genders;
• “Intersex persons”: Due to genetic variations, cannot be assigned to any MG by evidence of genetic and/or anatomical features;
• “Transgender persons”: Born in a given MG, their basic self-sense of personhood & identity belong in another MG;
• “Intergender persons”: Self-identify as belonging to more than one MG at once, or not belonging to any MG at all; may express combinations of MG attributes, or none at all; also may have any MG features;
• “Gender-adequation procedure (GAP)”: Medical procedures seeking to assign to intersex, transgender or intergender persons gender-related anatomical and/or genetic features needed to fit in a person-centered adequate gender.

  1. No intersex, transgender or intergender person shall be considered diseased by the sole reason of being intersex, transgender or intergender;

  2. No nation can prohibit GAPs to intersex, transgender or intergender persons; nor can they be prohibited to travel to other nations for the sole reason of seeking GAPs in said nations; nor can return be denied for the sole reason of having had GAPs;

  3. No intersex, transgender or intergender person shall be forced to choose to fit in any gender; persons are free to keep whatever life-compatible features Nature gave them. They shall be recognized as “intersex” (or culturally equivalent gender terms) if documents require gender identification;

  4. Full recognition shall be given to gender changes & intersex/gender status in international/national personal documents, if they mention gender;

  5. No intersex, transgender or intergender persons of any age shall have GAPs until they are mature enough to make an informed decision regarding their own future;

  6. Intersex, transgender & intergender persons shall be:

a) Provided access to a list of expert GAP providers, as well as peer support, before & after GAPs. Said support shall also be provided to intersex, transgender & intergender persons who choose not to have GAPs;

b) Consistently told the truth, within the limits of their advisors’ knowledge and belief (including providers’ honesty about uncertainty) & given copies of their medical records as soon & as often as they ask for them;

c) Allowed to have GAPs after they have been informed of the risks & benefits (plus evidence, or lack thereof, for both).

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NationStates • View topic - [PASSED] A Convention on Gender is the link for the GA fourum discussion over this.

There we see some support claiming to be necessary this specific protection, while other critics as they see it as a offence to sovereingty, unnecessary thanks to The Charter of Civil Rights and the Patient’s Rights Act resolutions or enforcement of moral standarts over other nations.

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I´m against it. WA charter of civil rights already covers this issue. This resolution brings a micromanagement of issues best left to national governments.

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DESIROUS of eliminating those horrors;

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If this passes, I resign WA status. I’ll re-apply ONLY if and when caffein’s BAN DEATH resolution will be passed.

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Against.

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AWARE that in spite of said progress, there are still persons who, while free from discrimination, are denied their basic self-sense of personhood & identity, an abuse often beginning in the earliest infancy;

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  1. No intersex, transgender or intergender persons of any age shall have GAPs until they are mature enough to make an informed decision regarding their own future;

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These two excerpts seem to at least indirectly contradict each other. Plus… I just don’t really feel the main source for such peoples is the lack of knowledge of where to change themselves. shrugs

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Another thing that sounds great on paper.

Also, I hope other WA members don’t have overstrained healthcare systems…

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“A Convention on Gender” was passed 3,363 votes to 2,560.