自然人婚后变性权问题探析

On the Right of Natural Person's Gender Transition after Marriage

我国在法律层面上目前并没有关于禁止变性(包括已婚者变性)的具体规定,司法实践承认和保护自然人的变性权。按照"法无禁止即许可"原则,只要其符合医学上有关变性的一般条件,就应当确认和保护他们的变性权。同时,已婚者进行变性手术不应以离婚为条件。在法律上,可以把变性作为确定夫妻感情确已破裂的法定理由加以规定。离婚时,变性一方应承担婚姻破裂的过错责任,配偶另一方有权请求婚姻过错损害赔偿。

Nowadays the regulation on forbidding gender transition is not specified （ including the married transgender）, but natural person＇s right to gender transition is acknowledged and protected by the judicial practice. According to the principle “no crime without a law”, the right to gender transition is supposed to be confirmed and protected on the condition that it conforms to the general medical condition. Meanwhile, sex reassignment surgery for married persons should not be based on dissolving marital relation. From the perspective of legislation, gender transition should be regarded as legal cause for the breakup. When dissolving marital relation, the person who precedes gender transition surgery should undertake the liability for faults due to the breakup of marital relation and the other enjoys the right to ask for comoensation for the hurt resulted from marital faults.