On the Legal Right for Trans People to Have Their Names and Gender Markers on Death Certificate

In this video, the researcher Simone Alvarez, who explains briefly her study on parents’ rights to request the change from legal name to social name of transgender son in death certificate.

Based on a specific case, the article problematizes the fact that personality rights can only be exercised by their holders and not by the parents of the victim, and advocates that these rights should be interpreted in accordance with social changes to guarantee transgender people dignity after death.