Officials from the Joint Countermeasures Committee for the reinstatement of transgender soldiers Byun Hee-soo and joint lawyers are holding a press conference filing an administrative lawsuit to cancel the disposition of sergeant Byun Hee-soo in Seoul on the morning of August 11 last year. By Kim Hye-yoon, staff reporter
A former sergeant Byun Hee-soo (23), who was forcibly discharged after undergoing a sex change operation while serving in the military, was found dead on the 3rd at his home in Sangdang-gu, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do. Putting together the words of the police and the fire department, the fire brigade, who dispatched Sergeant Byeon, was found dead in his home at 5:49 pm on the same day. The mental health center in Sangdang-gu, Cheongju reported it to the fire department because Sergeant Byeon, who was registered as a consultant, could not be contacted after the 28th of last month, and that there was a possibility that he had made an extreme choice. The will has not been confirmed yet. A police official said, “I have been living in Cheongju since last year (after I was discharged from the army), and I know that the mental health center has been intensively managed by complaining of serious stress during the psychological counseling process because I have not been able to reach out to my family very well.” said. Sergeant Byeon, a native of Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, was appointed as an army sergeant in 2017 and then performed a sex change operation in Thailand in November 2019. He hoped to continue serving in the military, but the Army decided on mandatory military service in January last year after making a decision of Level 3 mentally and physically impaired, and referring it to the discharge committee. At the time, Sergeant Byeon filed a petition with the Human Rights Commission on January 20 last year, two days before the discharge review, and also filed an emergency relief request requesting the suspension of the unfair discharge review. The Human Rights Commission made an emergency relief decision on the 21st, the next day, and recommended the Army Headquarters to postpone the holding of the evaluation committee for three months, but the Army conducted a discharge review. Sergeant Byeon filed an administrative lawsuit against the army. On December 14, last year, the Human Rights Commission held the All-in-One Committee and recommended that the Army’s compulsory warfare measures constitute human rights violations and to cancel the disposition to the Army Chief of Staff. In addition, the Minister of Defense recommended that the related system be reorganized so that such cases of damage do not recur. In its decision, the Human Rights Commission pointed out that the army’s decision violated the freedom of job performance. “The army arbitrarily interpreted the sex change surgery as a requirement for mental and physical disability and dispose of the victims.” He also pointed out that “there is no basis for seeing that the health status of Sergeant Byeon is’unsuitable for active duty’.” Tae-hoon Lim, director of the Military Rights Center, said, “Today, a transgender soldier, former Sergeant Byun Hee-soo, has passed away. Full-time members of the Military Rights Center are going to their homes to find out more about the situation. I will deliver the news later. Reporter Oh Yoon-joo [email protected] ※If you need expert help due to a feeling of depression or other difficult-to-speech concerns, call the Suicide Prevention Hotline ☎1577-0199, Call of Hope ☎129, Call of Life ☎1588-9191, Youth Call ☎1388, etc. You can get expert consultation 24 hours a day.
“The military of other countries is allowed to use transgender soldiers, but why couldn’t only the Korean army be allowed, I thought that the country should also go out and fight.” Byun Hee-soo at the Military Rights Center in Nogosan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul last year, <한겨레> In an interview with Saturday Pan, he said: I sat next to a bunch of artificial flowers in front of a house in an alley in Nogosan-dong and took a picture. Senior Reporter Kang Jae-hoon [email protected]
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