| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday.
The measure also gives people the right to specify how their gender is listed at the civil registry when their physical characteristics don't match how they see themselves. BLOG POSTS  | Domenick Scudera: Shut My Mouth: The President Has Evolved!
It seems like just yesterday that I wrote a HuffPost blog complaining about our president and vice president and their "evolving" opinions on gay marriage. Actually, it was yesterday. What a difference a day makes. |  | Dean Obeidallah: Why Are Gay People Treated As Less American Than Straight People?
The issue of marriage equality to me is not a nuanced legal issue. It's not a moral issue. It's simply a question of: Do you think all Americans should be treated equally? |  | Alec Baldwin: Rest in Peace, Maurice Sendak
Around four years ago, I met a broker at a Greenwich Village building to see an apartment. The owner was Maurice Sendak. I could tell that whether I got the apartment or not, I was going to enjoy this conversation. Just from his voice, his timing, you could tell Sendak was funny, wise, sensitive. |  | Craig Crawford: Marry Me
|  | Peter S. Goodman: Obama's Gay Marriage Endorsement a Step in Evolution of American Identity
Years from now, when historians look back at the long arc of American history, they will see in the president's announcement a significant moment. As they trace the social change that -- let us hope -- eventually came to render diversity in sexual orientation as an accepted part of what defines American society, they will absorb Obama's words as a turning point. The fact that those words came late, after the vice president's and the secretary of education's, and the fact that gay rights advocates were deeply disappointed with this president in the run-up will be mere footnotes. The short-term political context -- concern about the youth vote, balanced against the backlash from socially conservative voters in swing states -- will fade into memory, and then disappear. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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