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Recommendations To the Chinese government: 1. Prohibit discrimination on the grounds of gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Anti-discrimination legislation must include gender identity and sexual orientation as protected categories. 2. Develop transparent and efficient procedures, based on international human rights standards, to allow citizens the right to change their gender marker on legal documents on the basis of their gender identity, including ID cards, passports, household registration, educational certificates and other documents; 3. Amend the law in such a way that transgender people can apply to have the gender marker on their documents changed without having to satisfy any medical conditions. In particular, abolish the current pre-condition of sex reassignment surgery. 4. Support HIV and health services tar