Draft:Silverio v. Republic of the Philippines

Silverio v. Republic of the Philippines alternatively titled as Silverio v. Republic (G.R. No. 174689 (2007) was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines which held that no law allows the change of entry in the birth certificate and sex on the ground of sex reassignment under the Civil Code of the Philippines.

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Rommel Jacinto Dantes Silverio was born on April 4, 1962, to Melencio Petines Silverio and Anita Aquino Dantes in Manila. Silverio graduated from University of the Philippines in Bachelor of Science and Statistics and Bachelor of Arts, He took a Population Studies Program where he graduated from University of Hawaii in Master of Arts in Sociology and Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology.