VII. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression VII. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression CEDAW Articles 2, 5, 12, 16 ∣ SDGs 5 Response to 2022 CEDAW Report 16.4-16.7, 16.13-16.14, 16.21-24 32. Intersex and transgender people continue to face violations of their fundamental rights to bodily integrity, personality, and health. Lesbian and gay individuals are still not equally protected by the law in transnational same-sex marriages, child adoption, and access to assisted reproductive technologies and resources.
Gender Change Registration System 33. Parents are often compelled by the gender binary framework to subject their intersex children to premature genital corrective surgery without their consent, causing irreversible harm. However, due to the lack of clear definitions and statistical data, the actual number of intersex individuals who were forced to undergo surgeries can only be roughly estimated based on the number of surgeries performed under the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of Taiwan’s ¯37¯