Transgender people were considered outcasts until recent days. They were put on trial and in hospitals, they did not have any social or judicial recognition. The 164th law, approved in 1982, made sex change possible within the Italian legal system but a sex reassignment surgery was mandatory in order to have the birth certificate corrected. In 2015 the surgery was deemed unnecessary and transgender people were finally allowed to transition the way they wanted. Today they are treated equally under the law but has true equality and social inclusion been obtained? From the Cirinnà law – which allows homosexual couples to apply for a civil union but not for a marriage – to judges often unable to put themselves in the shoes of the community, here’s how our legal system works to protects transgender people and grants them the rights stated by our Constitution.
Le persone transgender erano fino a poco fa considerate ai margini della comunità. Processate e ricoverate in ospedale, non avevano alcun riconoscimento sul piano sociale e giuridico. La legge 164/1982 ha rappresentato il riconoscimento nell’ordinamento italiano della possibilità di cambiare sesso, attraverso un’operazione chirurgica di riconversione sessuale e, solo successivamente, la rettificazione degli atti anagrafici. Nel 2015 si è finalmente ammessa la non necessarietà dell’intervento chirurgico ai fini del cambio delle generalità, permettendo a ciascuno di scegliere il percorso più appropriato. Ad oggi, è consentito loro avere una famiglia, un lavoro ed una vita sociale congrua all’identità personale, ma è davvero raggiunta una vera uguaglianza ed inclusione? Dalla legge Cirinnà che ammette le unioni civili – ma non i matrimoni – per le coppie omosessuali, a giudici non sempre di ampie vedute, ecco come il nostro ordinamento giuridico tutela la condizione transgender, riconoscendole i diritti previsti in Costituzione.
Costituzione e Transgenderismo
PALETTA, FEDERICA
2020/2021
Abstract
Transgender people were considered outcasts until recent days. They were put on trial and in hospitals, they did not have any social or judicial recognition. The 164th law, approved in 1982, made sex change possible within the Italian legal system but a sex reassignment surgery was mandatory in order to have the birth certificate corrected. In 2015 the surgery was deemed unnecessary and transgender people were finally allowed to transition the way they wanted. Today they are treated equally under the law but has true equality and social inclusion been obtained? From the Cirinnà law – which allows homosexual couples to apply for a civil union but not for a marriage – to judges often unable to put themselves in the shoes of the community, here’s how our legal system works to protects transgender people and grants them the rights stated by our Constitution.È consentito all'utente scaricare e condividere i documenti disponibili a testo pieno in UNITESI UNIPV nel rispetto della licenza Creative Commons del tipo CC BY NC ND.
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