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Hong Kong will allow transgender people who have not completed full sex reassignment surgery to change gender on their ID cards, the government said on Wednesday, but activists are upset by strict ...
Public sentiment in Hong Kong has become increasingly welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community, but many still face challenges in daily life. Tse said bank staff told him he did not match his ID card and ...
For many of us, an identity card is a little piece of plastic tucked away in a wallet that we rarely think much about. But for Hong Kong transgender activist Henry Tse, his ID card was something ...
It said about 90 per cent of Hong Kong identity card holders had obtained a new version of the document with improved security features under a replacement exercise that began in December 2018.
Hong Kong eased some rules for transgender people in order to change their gender on official ID cards but maintained a requirement mandating some types of surgery. The government announced the ...
Hong Kong permanent residents who are living outside the city are not expected to return just to renew their HKID, but they should know that expired smart ID cards will be confiscated at ...
閱讀中文版本. However, this move will not affect the right of abode in Hong Kong of the holders of old ID cards. The HKSAR government has announced that the old form of Hong Kong smart identity cards issued ...
The Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Monday ruled that policies requiring transgender men to undergo full sex re-assignment surgery (SRS) to alter gender markers on their Hong Kong ID cards are ...
Hong Kong's Territory-wide Identity Card Replacement Exercise (Replacement Exercise) is entering the final stage. The Immigration Department (ImmD) has announced the cessation of the operation of the ...
A Hong Kong transgender activist on Monday received a new ID card reflecting his gender change, after a yearslong legal battle to change the document, and he vowed to continue working for equality ...
Activist Henry Tse, who won an appeal to change the gender on his ID card, shows his ID to the press after receiving the new document in Hong Kong, Monday, April. 29, 2024.