Article 19 of Law on the Practice of Medicine and Allied Health Professions

All operations, surgeries and medical interventions that would lead to changing a person's sex are prohibited. However, they may be performed for the purpose of correcting sex, only in governmental hospitals affiliated with the Ministry, and in accordance with the following controls and procedures: 1 - The person's sexual affiliation must be ambiguous and uncertain as between male and female. 2 - The person must have physical features inconsistent with his physiological, biological or genetic characteristics. 3 - The first and second items of this Article must be verified by medical reports issued by the Ministry. 4 - The request for correction must be submitted expressly and in writing by the patient or his legal representative to the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, with all available documents and reports attached to the request. 5 - Approval to perform this operation shall be issued by a medical committee formed by the Minister consisting of three specialist physicians, whose head shall be at consultant level and shall chair the committee. The decision shall be written and signed by all members of the committee, specifying the patient's sex and approving the correction operation in accordance with the medical protocols approved this regard and the patient's interests. 6 - The committee must seek the assistance of a psychiatrist to undertake the necessary psychological preparation before and after that procedure. 7 - The committee shall issue a medical report concerning the patient's condition and sex within two weeks from the date of the correction operation, in light of which the official documents shall be amended and corrected. 8 - The Ministry shall issue a correction certificate containing all the particulars of the patient's old birth certificate and indicating his sex before and after the correction operation, Index of the Law 761 Home Page Law on the Practice of Medicine and Allied Professions Law No. 70 of 2020 concerning the Practice of Medicine and Its Allied Professions, Patients' Rights and Health Facilities the date of correction and its results. A summary of the particulars of the committee's decision and report shall be recorded therein. This certificate shall have evidentiary force in proving the type and determination of sex, shall be considered supplementary to the particulars of the birth certificate, and shall be legally recognized before all entities. 9 - The Ministry shall issue the correction certificate referred to in the preceding item within a period not exceeding two months from the date of the correction operation. All particulars and procedures undertaken shall be entered in a special register maintained by it, and the type of correction, its date and its basis shall be annotated in the patient's old birth register at the Ministry of Health. 10 - Pursuant to the correction certificate referred to in the preceding two countries, an application for a change of name shall be submitted to the committee provided for in Law No. (10) of 2010 concerning the Regulation of Procedures for Parentage Actions and Correction of Names, provided that he chooses a name suitable for him, appropriate to his social environment and not duplicated among his siblings. The committee shall issue its decision on the application with brief reasons. The patient or his legal representative shall be notified thereof upon attending the said committee, which shall provide him with a true copy of the decision. If the change of the patient's name is approved, the date and operative part of the decision shall be published in the Official Gazette.