Uruguay Takes Another Step Forward for GLBT Rights

The new measure has been passed by the Chamber of Deputies, the rough equivalent of Congress, and declares that each individual has the right to determine his or her gender, anatomy notwithstanding.

Religious and social conservatives in other countries have labeled the new law “anti-family.”

That was the characterization used by anti-gay religious Web site LifeSiteNews in a Sept. 22 article on the new law, although the article did not specify how the measure would negatively impact families.

The LifeSiteNews item noted that the bill states that “everyone has the right to the free development of his personality regarding his own gender identity, independently of his biological, genetic, anatomic, morphologic, hormonal, assigned, or other sex.”

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