Category: Civil Rights
Strength: Significant
The World Assembly,
SUPPORTING previous efforts by this body to support the rights of transgender individuals, henceforth referred to as TIs, and to affirm their gender identity.
APPLAUDING previous resolutions which have helped to allow TIs to legally change their gender to conform to their gender identity.
BELIEVING, however, that under current law, member governments may still exploit several loopholes in order to make it unnecessarily difficult for TIs to legally change their gender, by imposing undue restrictions for such a change. These restrictions include the requirement of having undergone sex reassignment surgery, henceforth referred to as SRS.
ASSERTING that further legislation on this topic is necessary to prevent this behavior.
NOTING that this resolution is a logical extension of requirements in previous resolutions, such as GAR #467, which: “Forbids any member-state from forcing an individual to undergo hormone therapy.” As this body has already agreed that TIs should not be forced to undergo hormone therapy, it makes sense that individuals should not be forced to undergo SRS either.
Hereby:
1. Defines sex reassignment surgery (SRS), as a process in which a person undergoes surgery to medically align physical characteristics with one’s identified gender.
2. Defines a transgender individual (TI) as any individual who identifies as a gender which differs from the gender they were assigned at birth.
3. Requires member nations to allow TIs to legally change their gender, without requiring them to undergo SRS, as such a requirement would:
A. Violate individual rights, as not all TIs wish to undergo such a surgery.
B. Be harmful to the mental health of TIs who do not wish to receive the surgery, as they would be unable to legally identify as their gender.
C. Be disproportionately harmful to the poor, as not all people have the ability to afford such a procedure.
D. Make it impossible for transgender minors to legally change their gender, due to GAR #91 requiring that: “No intersex, transgender or intergender persons of any age shall have GAPs [sex reassignment surgeries] until they are mature enough to make an informed decision regarding their own future.”
Co-authored by Yong
This is based off a resolution by Yong that I reworked with their permission. This is my first time writing a proposal so there are probably issues.
I’ve been told that 3d may be a house of cards violation, but I’m not sure if it is, because the rule specifically says “Proposals cannot rely on the existing resolutions to support it; it must be independent.” While I could certainly see how this specific point would not stand alone if GAR #91 were repealed, the rule says that PROPOSALS cannot rely on existing resolutions. The whole point of the house of cards rule (I think) is that if your resolution is completely based on another one and that one gets repealed, your resolution would be useless and probably have to be repealed too. However, if GAR #91 were repealed, that specific point wouldn’t stand, but the resolution as a whole still would, as it’s only one of four reasons. It could be said that it doesn’t violate the rule because the proposal itself is still independent. I’m not trying to rules lawyer here, I’m genuinely not sure if this is breaking the rules or not. If someone in GenSec can tell me it would be a huge help.
The main changes I made from draft one is trying to abbreviate the terms sex reassignment surgery and transgender individuals because they’re quite long and I say them several times. Is this a good change, or should I change it back? I didn’t really want to abbreviate sex reassignment surgery as I don’t say it THAT much, but to fit the title in I had to abbreviate it. I tried to explain what SRS stands for relatively soon into the proposal but it’s tricky to fit naturally in the preamble part. I also made it so the verbs are more SHOUTY like a clickbait YouTube title.
I’d like to hear any comments people may have, wether positive or negative. The first draft didn’t get that much engagement and I really wanna hear what you have to say because I’m a first time author and it’ll be really helpful.
