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Furthermore, those who submitted to SRS abroad suffered a stressful experience involving an unpredictable outcome when they asked for a subsequent change of their civil status records so as to update the data concerning sex and forename in their birth certificate and identity papers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>In the last few years some people, especially doctors, have been taking steps to remove political, judicial and medical prejudices and attitudes in relation to the transsexuals' situation in this country; however, the main obstacles and procedures remain practically unchangeable.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Based upon their medico-legal experience in such cases, the authors point out some aspects related to the situation of the transsexuals examined at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Lisbon since 1982, as well as their judicial outcome.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>In order to draw attention to the present situation of transsexuals within the Portuguese legal framework, this is compared with those of other European Union countries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Recognizing that this situation has become a heavy burden for transsexuals, the urgent necessity for Portugal to follow the main principles of Recommendation 1117 (1989) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is stressed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/002580249603600307","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,15]],"date-time":"2017-07-15T04:31:37Z","timestamp":1500093097000},"page":"221-225","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Transsexualism in Portugal: The Legal Framework and Procedure, and its Consequences for Transsexuals"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Jorge","family":"Costa-Santos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Director Of The Departments Of Psychiatry And Clinical Forensic Medicine, Institute of Legal Medicine of Lisbon; Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rosa","family":"Madeira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Forensic Clinical Doctor, Institute of Legal Medicine of Lisbon"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1996,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-002580249603600307","unstructured":"Bourgeois M. (1988) Troubles de l'identit\u00e9 sexuelle: dysphorie de genre et transsexualisms Encyclop\u00e9die M\u00e9dico-Chirurgicale, Psychiatrie, 37299 D20, 11\u20131988, p. 8."},{"key":"bibr2-002580249603600307","first-page":"316","volume":"1710","author":"Costa-Santos J.","year":"1985","journal-title":"O M\u00e9dico"},{"key":"bibr3-002580249603600307","volume-title":"On the condition of transsexuals","author":"Report of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Recommendation 1117","year":"1989"},{"key":"bibr4-002580249603600307","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00565.x","volume":"61","author":"Sorensen T.","year":"1980","journal-title":"Acta Psychiat. Scand."},{"key":"bibr5-002580249603600307","unstructured":"Sousa R. C., Pit\u00e3o J. A. F. (1978) C\u00f3digo Civil e Legisla\u00e7\u00e3o Complementar. 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