Ranswave Jamaica released a model gender recognition legislation on Human Rights Day on December 10, 2021 – Executive Director, Renae Green and Lamar Grant, Policy, Advocacy, and Research Officer share more details with us. _____ We’re on the scene, bringing you the latest, keeping you up to date on News, Entertainment, Business & Sports! Constantly working to enhance your viewing experience, telling compelling, diverse and engaging stories. 🔴 Verified and Delivered, News You Can Depend On. 🔴 Drama, Music, Lifestyle! Watch It All On E-Live Unplugged 🔴 Talking Business & Taking Stock Watch Business Live Extra On CVM TV SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos:    / cvmtelevision   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CVMTV

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In this video, Mali (they/she) discusses what TransWave’s gender recognition framework is, and what it hopes to achieve. Taking account of the desires of local trans and GNC community, the ideal Gender Recognition Legislation for Jamaica has the following features: It takes an administrative approach, using the Registrar General Department to affect changes. The standard of proof is on the basis of self-determination, with the possibility of requiring community members to provide a letter or statement from medical or psychological professionals, attesting to their trans identity. It avoids all the additional proof requirements that would make it prohibitive It facilitates in, some measure, the ability to change gender markers two-three more times after the first change. It is accessible to all citizens, permanent residents and refugees who are over 18 years of age. It provides for binary and non-binary gender options. It amends the Registration (Births & Deaths) Act so that – at least – the trans and GNC Jamaican will have a birth certificate that can be used to have all their other identity documents changed It amends the Passport Act 1962, the Road Traffic Act 2018 and the Representation of the People Act 1944 to create process to have the gender markers on those documents adjusted to align with the identity of trans and GNC Jamaicans. It harmonizes the collection of sex and gender information across all identity legislation using the NIDS framework. It prohibits misgendering and discrimination on the basis of gender identity. It places a duty on the government to sensitize all public sector workers around trans issues and prescribes penalties for failure to register changes of gender. It establishes the positions of trans and GNC persons vis a vis other areas of law such as sexual offences, family law and prescribes how they are to be treated across spheres of life such as penal institutions, hospitals etc.

In this video, Ashley (she/her) discusses how recommendation 10 of the Gender Recognition Legislation Framework would impact her life as a trans woman. Recommendation states that gender recognition laws in Jamaican should prohibit misgendering and discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

In this video, Glynndevon (he/him) discusses recommendation 2 from the TransWave gender recognition legislation framework which advocates for transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people to be able to change their gender markers. Recommendation 2 states, ” The standard of proof is on the basis of self-determination, with the possibility of requiring community members to provide a letter or statement from medical or psychological professionals, attesting to their trans identity,”.

In this video, Matthew (they/them) discusses the importance of having binary and non-binary gender options for gender recognition on their legal documentation. This is recommendation 6 of the TransWave Gender Recognition Legislation Framework.

In this video, Afe (he/him) discusses the importance of governmental sensitisation about transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary people. Recommendation 11 suggests that a gender recognition legislation is passed that places a duty on the government to sensitize all public sector workers around trans issues and prescribes penalties for failure to register changes of gender.