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2. Living Men and Women
 
  2.1 Living Men and Women in general  
  Article 63-The gender of an Individual  
63.1 The gender of an Individual  
  Excepting exceptional cases, all individuals are born either male or female by virtue of their reproductive and sexual organs.  
63.2 A child born with both sexes  
  Where a child is born with both sexual organs, it shall be the right of medical staff at the time to choose which sexual organs that are less formed shall be removed without harm to the child in order to resolve a definitive sex for the child.  
  Where such action is taken, medical staff shall be immune from any liability or future claim.  
  In all such cases, medical staff are required to register such corrective surgeries on the confidential file of the child.  
63.3 Change of gender medical procedure  
  A free individual over the age of 18, who is not in military service, who has been domiciled in Americas-Union for at least one year and is a citizen of Americas-Union may make an application under this article for a change of gender medical procedure to the opposite sex.  
  Upon making such a formal application, the same individual may apply for a determination as to whether they were born with both sexual organs. If in such a case, it is found that an individual had been born with both sexual organs, the individual making the change of gender medical procedure may claim for part government subsidy for the operation.  
  In all other cases, under no circumstances may change of gender medical procedures be partially or fully subsidized indirectly or directly by any government department, entity or grant recipient, nor by any form of health insurance.  
63.4 Certification of change of gender  
  Every individual who has successfully undergone medical treatments and surgical operations involving a structural modification of the sexual organs intended to change his secondary sexual characteristics may have the designation of sex which appears on their certificate of birth and, if necessary, their given names changed.
  
  Only an unmarried individual of full age who has been domiciled in Americas-Union for at least one year and is a citizen of Americas-Union may make an application under this article.
  
  The application is made to the registrar of civil status; it is accompanied with, in addition to the other relevant documents, a certificate of the attending physician and an attestation by another physician practising in Americas-Union to the effect that the treatments and operations were successful.
  
  The application is subject to the same procedure as an application for a change of name and to the same publication requirements and the same duties. The rules relating to the effects of a change of name, adapted as required, apply to a change of designation of sex.
  
  In the register of civil status, however, the new designation of sex is entered only in the certificate of birth of the individual concerned.
  
  Any decision of the registrar of civil status relating to the assignment of a name or to a change of name or designation of sex may be reviewed by the court, on the application of an interested person.
  
     
     
     
 
 

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