Muñoz León Fernando
Rev Med Chil. 2015 Aug;143(8):1015-9. doi: 10.4067/S0034-98872015000800008.
Do transsexual people in Chile have a right to have their gender identity or their sex reassignment legally recognized? The absence of any legislation on gender identity or transsexualism could lead us to believe that it is not the case. However, a quantitative review of decisions issued by Chilean courts during the last years on name-and sex-change requests filed by transsexual people reveals that most of these courts have accepted these requests. From the perspective of the well-being of transsexual people, this is a positive result. However, the fact that a few rejections exist reminds us of the need to enact an explicit legislation in this issue. Lastly, a qualitative analysis of those decisions suggests that the traditional reluctance of courts to interpret the law in a creative way has been overcome in these cases by the use of knowledge and discourses belonging to healthcare sciences. This is an example of an epistemological complementariness between medicine and law.
智利的变性人是否有权使其性别认同或性别重新认定得到法律认可？由于缺乏任何关于性别认同或变性症的立法，我们可能会认为情况并非如此。然而，对智利法院在过去几年里就变性人提出的姓名和性别变更请求所做出的裁决进行的定量审查显示，这些法院中的大多数都接受了这些请求。从变性人的福祉角度来看，这是一个积极的结果。然而，存在一些拒绝的情况这一事实提醒我们，有必要就这个问题制定明确的立法。最后，对这些裁决的定性分析表明，在这些案件中，法院传统上不愿意以创造性方式解释法律的情况已通过运用医学科学的知识和论述而得以克服。这是医学与法律之间认识论互补性的一个例子。
