Gender Identity/expression
See also: Legal aspects of transsexualismA landmark case, brought in 2005 by Andres Rivera, the founder of the only NGO in Chile dedicated to fighting for trans people's rights, won the right for trans people to legally change their name and sex in 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words gender, identity and/or expression:
“... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
—Paula Giddings (b. 1948)
“Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“Here and there a bird sang, a rose silenced her expression of him, and all the gaga flowers wondered. But they puzzled the wanderer with their vague wearinesses.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)