TY - JOUR ID - 58202 TI - Comparative study of transsexuals' social rights in international instruments, common law and Iranian legal system JO - Public Law Studies Quarterly JA - JPLSQ LA - en SN - 2423-8120 AU - Safari, Mohsen AU - Amir Shahkarami, Seyed Mehrdad AD - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - MSc. in Private law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 375 EP - 392 KW - contextualizing Yogyakarta principles KW - gender recognition act 2004 KW - insurance right KW - nondiscrimination KW - Privacy KW - Right to Health KW - Transsexual DO - 10.22059/jplsq.2016.58202 N2 - The transsexual community is exposed to social and legal injustice Due to its members' sexual identity. Discrimination, violation of their privacy and inaccessibility to high quality health care are just some of many instances among the injustice they face. The rights mentioned are considered important in all international documents and in legislative systems of civilized societies. International documents recognizes sexual identity as an independent agent in their defense against discrimination and explicitly protect transgenders' right to privacy and their right to an accessible heath care. While United Kingdom and The United States have adopted numerous protective bills, Iran's domestic law lacks a distinct set of provisions in this regard. With this legal gap resulting in the exclusion of the transsexual community from the society, legislative consideration for the matter deems necessary. The primary solution is to interpret general constitutional rights in favor of their absolute rights, however, as mentioned the need to pass new laws specified to include all rights of the transsexual community cannot go unnoticed. UR - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_58202.html L1 - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_58202_a4c93394498c947581d99a3cf5e02c62.pdf ER -