Helena Dalli

Helena Dalli is a Maltese politician with the Malta Labour Party. She is a four-time Member of Parliament, making her the third-most elected woman in Maltese political history. She is the Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs, and Civil Liberties within the Maltese Government 2013–18.

In April 2015, she presented a law establishing basic rights for transsexual and intersex people. This was the world-first such law to be implemented for intersex people.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

She is also a lecturer in sociology at the University of Malta.

References

• Dalli at the Malta parliament
• The Minister

1. Reuters (1 April 2015). "Surgery and Sterilization Scrapped in Malta's Benchmark LGBTI Law". The New York Times.
2. Star Observer (2 April 2015). "Malta passes law outlawing forced surgical intervention on intersex minors". Star Observer.
3. Cabral, Mauro (April 8, 2015). "Making depathologization a matter of law. A comment from GATE on the Maltese Act on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics". Global Action for Trans Equality. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
4. OII Europe (April 1, 2015). "OII-Europe applauds Malta's Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. This is a landmark case for intersex rights within European law reform". Retrieved 2015-07-03.
5. Carpenter, Morgan (April 2, 2015). "We celebrate Maltese protections for intersex people". Organisation Intersex International Australia. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
6. Transgender Europe (April 1, 2015). Malta Adopts Ground-breaking Trans and Intersex Law – TGEU Press Release.