[DRAFT] Repeal GA № 91 "A Convention on Gender"

[The North Polish Union]

The World Assembly

APPLAUDING the efforts of GA Resolution #91 “A Convention on Gender” to combat inequality, sexism and other forms of gender identity-based discrimination, as well as gender identity-based lack of access to utilities; and

ACKNOWLEDGING that at the time of its passage GA# 91 was one of the first resolutions to focus specifically on gender identity as an issue; but

NOTING that recently several resolutions including GA Resolution #457 “Defending The Rights Of Sexual and Gender Minorities”, GA Resolution #467 “Affordable Transgender Hormone Therapy”, GA Resolution #571 “Access To Transgender Hormone Therapy”, and GA Resolution #578 “Transgender Self-Determination have further covered and better clarified the issues which GA #91 sought to address;

OBSERVING that GA #91 assures members of non-majoritarian genders access to medical therapy, although this right had already been guaranteed by GA Resolution #29 “Patient’s Right Act”, legislation which remains in force today;

ALARMED that although GA #91 requires access to gender-adequation procedures (GAPs), it does not so much as encourage that GAPs be accompanied by counselling or other psychological support, a situation which may fail to address the mental health needs of members of non-majoritarian genders, although GA #91 notes that “depression & suicide” can be a problem for such individuals;

CONFUSED by GA #91’s simultaneous assertion that, prior to its passage, members of non-majoritarian genders were both “free from discrimination” and sufferers of “untold countless horrors”;

AWARE that GA Resolution #35 “The Charter Of Civil Rights” states unequivocally that individuals “must not be discriminated against on grounds including sex, […] sexual orientation or sexual identity, or any other arbitrarily assigned and reductive categorisation which may be used for the purposes of discrimination”;

CONCERNED by the apparent contradiction whereby GA #91 forbids parents from making specific medical decisions on behalf of their children while GA #29 specifically permits them to do so;

BELIEVING that although GA #91 was well-intentioned it is a piece of legislation whose existence creates serious confusion when viewed with many other resolutions, and that its repeal will in no way adversely impact the groups which it seeks to protect;

THIS BODY does hereby repeal GA Resolution #91 “A Convention on Gender”.

[ShrewLlamaLand]

Against, needs a replacement.

[Sylh Alanor]

Against. GAR#91 seems extremely well-made and thoughtful for being passed in 2010.

I'm also generally against this trend of repealing old resolutions that remain well-written and functional for no real reason other than to repeal an old resolution.

[Sandaoguo]

This repeal only has one true argument— that you believe people should be required to go through a psychological treatment or therapy before having gender affirming surgery. This argument is hidden in between a bunch of stuff that doesn’t matter.

All those resolutions were written with A Convention on Gender in existence and in the context of the resolution being in force as well. The World Assembly saw fit to pass them, and now you’re arguing that it’s somehow a problem of the original resolution that the World Assembly passed future ones on related topics. That’s not a real argument. It’s likely just intended to obfuscate the possibly less popular one about requiring therapy. I’d note that your own country is free to require that.