Transsexualism has again been recognized by the Ministry of Defense as a disqualifying premise from professional military service. Deputy Ombudsman Valeri Vachev has written to Defense Ministry Secretary of State Cezary Tomczyk on the matter. He asks, among other things, how and on what factual basis differentiated sexual characteristics (intersex - "hermaphroditism") and transgender ("transsexualism") would constitute an obstacle to military service. As he points out, the World Health Organization has removed transgenderism, including transsexualism, from its list of mental disorders.
One of the Ombudsman's demands from the report: "The legal situation of non-heterosexual and transgender people in Poland. The International Standard for the Protection of the Human Rights of LGBT Persons and the Status of its Observance from the Ombudsman's Perspective" was to amend the Ministry of Defense's January 24, 2018 regulation on the adjudication of fitness for active military service and the procedure of military medical commissions in these cases - by removing transsexualism from the list of diseases preventing active military service.
The Ombudsman also drew atte...
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