the Protector of Citizens, the provision which contains explicit prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or the explicit prohibition of the content which incites establishment of prejudice and stereotypes were not included in the Law on Textbooks. Despite recommendations of the Protector of Citizens, the Action Plan for the period 20182019 for the implementation of the Development Strategy of the Ministry of Interior for the period 2018-202178 there are still no prescribed concrete specific measures dedicated the improvement of the position of LGBTI persons and other sensitive social groups, even though LGBTI persons are frequently exposed to threats, violence, hate speech and hate crimes. Furthermore, amendments to the Law on Police do not prohibit discrimination also on the basis of sexual orientation. Although the Protector of Citizens issued recommendations several times, the Law on Free Legal Assistance79 did not introduce as categories of users in sensitive position LGBTI persons who face grave violation of rights in various spheres of life. Respecting the attitudes of the Protector of Citizens that the Rulebook on More Detailed Conditions, Criteria and Manner of Selection, Testing and Evaluation of Donors of Reproductive Cells and Embryos80 contains provisions which are not in compliance with adopted standards of the exercise of human rights and non-discrimination when it comes to LGBTI persons, the Administration for Biomedicine expressed the readiness to amend this bylaw and submitted to the Protector of Citizens the proposal of the new text of disputable provisions. At the moment of writing of this report, the bylaw still has not been amended. When it comes to the protection of rights of intersex persons, the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination and other relevant laws do not contain the provision which explicitly prohibits discrimination of intersex persons and discrimination on the basis of sexual characteristics, even though the Republic of Serbia in the Third Cycle of the Universal Periodical Review of the United Nations on 24th January, 2018 received the recommendation to include in regulations the protection of LGBTI persons against discrimination on the basis of intersexual status. The World Health Organization in 2019 conducted the revision of the International Disease Classification (IDC 11) in which the transgender identity was removed from the list of mental diseases, and the very notion of transgender was replaced by the notion of gender incongruence, which continues the world trend of de-pathologizing of trans identity. Member states will since 2022 report to the United Nations on the implementation of IDC 11 and until then the states have the period for the implementation of the program of de-pathologizing of trans-identity. Crucial items of this program for adequate national implementation are training of health care employees; adjustment of national systems of health insurance so as to involve the necessary care of trans-gender persons; provision of availability of services and introduction of standards of human rights into the Guidelines for actions which should be executed by the Ministry of Health. There is a great problem of keeping of the hormonal status of trans persons, women who underwent hysterectomy and women in menopause. There is no hormone estradiol in ampules, without which trans women who do not have glands to produce estradiol could live, at the market in the Republic of Serbia. Therefore, the Protector of Citizens, acting upon his own initiative, took measures towards the Ministry of Health and RHIF. Available at: https://www.srbija.gov.rs/dokument/45678/strategije.php. “Official Gazette of RS“, no. 87/18. 80 “Official Gazette of RS“, no. 27/2019. 78 79 - 49 -