<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper demonstrates that in Poland, a democratic state emphasizing the rule of law and equality under the law, we are dealing with the phenomenon of social (through legal) exclusion of transgender citizens. The paper presents the draft Act on Gender Recognition vetoed by the President of the Republic of Poland and the controversy associated with this fact. In addition, the consequences of the current legal status of transgender people in Poland, such as chronic and humiliating court proceedings and limited access to the health care system, have been identified. The paper attempts to demonstrate the indispensability of legislation in the field of gender recognition for the dignified, equitable social functioning of people with mental and biological gender incompatibility.</p></abstract>

This paper demonstrates that in Poland, a democratic state emphasizing the rule of law and equality under the law, we are dealing with the phenomenon of social (through legal) exclusion of transgender citizens. The paper presents the draft Act on Gender Recognition vetoed by the President of the Republic of Poland and the controversy associated with this fact. In addition, the consequences of the current legal status of transgender people in Poland, such as chronic and humiliating court proceedings and limited access to the health care system, have been identified. The paper attempts to demonstrate the indispensability of legislation in the field of gender recognition for the dignified, equitable social functioning of people with mental and biological gender incompatibility.

Resisting Gender Recognition in Poland: A Process of Social Exclusion

agnieszka.makarewicz-marcinkiewicz@uwr.edu.pl

Polish Political Science Review

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This paper demonstrates that in Poland, a democratic state emphasizing the rule of law and equality under the law, we are dealing with the phenomenon of social...

Resisting Gender Recognition in Poland: A Process of Social Exclusion

Published Online: Dec 21, 2019

Page range: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2019-0011

Keywords
social exclusion, legal exclusion, gender recognition, transgenderism

© 2019 Agnieszka Makarewicz-Marcinkiewicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Resisting Gender Recognition in Poland: A Process of Social Exclusion

Published Online: Dec 21, 2019

Page range: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2019-0011

Keywordssocial exclusion, legal exclusion, gender recognition, transgenderism

© 2019 Agnieszka Makarewicz-Marcinkiewicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
social exclusion, legal exclusion, gender recognition, transgenderism