Helena Dalli
Helena Dalli is a Maltese politician with the Malta Labour Party. She is a four-time Member of Parliament, making her the third-most elected woman in Maltese political history. She is the Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs, and Civil Liberties within the Maltese Government 2013–18.
In April 2015, she presented a law establishing basic rights for transsexual and intersex people. This was the world-first such law to be implemented for intersex people.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
She is also a lecturer in sociology at the University of Malta.
References
- Dalli at the Malta parliament
- The Minister
- ↑ Reuters (1 April 2015). "Surgery and Sterilization Scrapped in Malta's Benchmark LGBTI Law". The New York Times.
- ↑ Star Observer (2 April 2015). "Malta passes law outlawing forced surgical intervention on intersex minors". Star Observer.
- ↑ Cabral, Mauro (April 8, 2015). "Making depathologization a matter of law. A comment from GATE on the Maltese Act on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics". Global Action for Trans Equality. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ↑ OII Europe (April 1, 2015). "OII-Europe applauds Malta's Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. This is a landmark case for intersex rights within European law reform". Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ↑ Carpenter, Morgan (April 2, 2015). "We celebrate Maltese protections for intersex people". Organisation Intersex International Australia. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ↑ Transgender Europe (April 1, 2015). Malta Adopts Ground-breaking Trans and Intersex Law – TGEU Press Release.
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