Covenant of the Rainbow - Campaign toward a Truly Inclusive Church (“COR”) Welcomes the Government’s Consultation Paper on Gender Recognition
The self-recognition and self-affirmation of one’s gender is the human right of every human being and the basis of the establishment of social identity of each individual in the society. However, the society’s past practice which recognises each person’s "legal" gender according to one’s biological conditions only cater to the large number of the public whose psychological gender identities match with their biological bodies (i.e. cisgender), but such practice deprives a minority of those, where there is a mismatch between their psychological gender identities and physiological conditions, of