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 | [[Recognition (Argentina)|Argentina]]
 | style="background-color:#9ff;" | Identity documents can be issued without a gender marker at all thanks to the Gender Identity Law, passed in 2012. In November 2018, two nonbinary people were able to make this change without a judicial procedure for the first time.<ref>[https://www.pagina12.com.ar/152857-dni-sin-indicacion-de-sexo-y-como-un-tramite DNI sin indicación de sexo y como un trámite] — Página12 (in Spanish) [https://web.archive.org/web/20210517052156/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/152857-dni-sin-indicacion-de-sexo-y-como-un-tramite Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
-| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Argentina allows transgender people to get access to legal and medical resources they need to transition, without requiring these things in order to be legally recognized as their gender. They can change their legal gender based on their written declaration, without even a diagnosis.<ref>"Argentina Adopts Groundbreaking Gender Identity Law." Transgender Europe. May 10, 2012. http://tgeu.org/argentina-adopts-ground-breaking-gender-identity-law/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007090552/https://tgeu.org/argentina-adopts-ground-breaking-gender-identity-law/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> See Argentina's Gender Identity Law as of 2012 [http://tgeu.org/argentina-gender-identity-law/ here]. While this law is said to be the most progressive transgender law in the world,<ref>"FAQ about identity documents." Lambda Legal. http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/identity-document-faq [https://web.archive.org/web/20230310122512/http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/identity-document-faq Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> it doesn't directly mention intersex or nonbinary people.
+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Argentina allows transgender people to get access to legal and medical resources they need to transition, without requiring these things in order to be legally recognized as their gender. They can change their legal gender based on their written declaration, without even a diagnosis.<ref>"Argentina Adopts Groundbreaking Gender Identity Law." Transgender Europe. May 10, 2012. http://tgeu.org/argentina-adopts-ground-breaking-gender-identity-law/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007090552/https://tgeu.org/argentina-adopts-ground-breaking-gender-identity-law/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> See Argentina's Gender Identity Law as of 2012 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719142254/https://tgeu.org/argentina-gender-identity-law/ here]. While this law is said to be the most progressive transgender law in the world,<ref>"FAQ about identity documents." Lambda Legal. http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/identity-document-faq [https://web.archive.org/web/20230310122512/http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/identity-document-faq Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> it doesn't directly mention intersex or nonbinary people.
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 | [[Recognition (Bolivia)|Bolivia]]
-| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Since August 2016, transgender people in Bolivia can change their legal gender as long as they are over 18 years old, pass a psychological test and write a letter of application.<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Lets-Transgender-People-Choose-Their-Legal-Identity-20160802-0034.html Bolivia Lets Transgender People Choose Their Legal Identity] — Tele Sur (English edition). [https://web.archive.org/web/20221003190248/https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Lets-Transgender-People-Choose-Their-Legal-Identity-20160802-0034.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Since August 2016, transgender people in Bolivia can change their legal gender as long as they are over 18 years old, pass a psychological test and write a letter of application.<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Lets-Transgender-People-Choose-Their-Legal-Identity-20160802-0034.html Bolivia Lets Transgender People Choose Their Legal Identity] — Tele Sur (English edition). [https://web.archive.org/web/20221003190248/https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Lets-Transgender-People-Choose-Their-Legal-Identity-20160802-0034.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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 | style="background-color:#f99;" |  Requires transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />
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 | [[Recognition (Chile)|Chile]]
-| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Non-binary gender "X" became recognized in official documents, but requires a court order.
+| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Requires a court order in order to have an "X" gender option.
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 | [[Recognition (Colombia)|Colombia]]
-| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  In February 2022, the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that a non-binary person was entitled to a birth certificate and identity card with a "no binario"/"NB" gender marker.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/08/colombias-constitutional-court-advances-gender-diversity [https://web.archive.org/web/20230510005621/https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/08/colombias-constitutional-court-advances-gender-diversity Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  In February 2022, the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that a non-binary person was entitled to a birth certificate and identity card with a "no binario"/"NB" gender marker.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/08/colombias-constitutional-court-advances-gender-diversity [https://web.archive.org/web/20230510005621/https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/08/colombias-constitutional-court-advances-gender-diversity Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Since August 2023, passports issued within Colombia included 3 options of namely male, female and X.<ref>https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1821705/colombia-adds-non-binary-gender-option-on-passports</ref>
 | style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Since 2015, transgender persons can change their legal gender and name manifesting their solemn will before a notar, no surgeries or judicial order required.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/colombia-allows-transgender-community-change-sex-ids-without-physical-exams-1957412 |website=International Business Times|title=Colombia Allows Transgender Community To Change Sex On IDs Without Physical Exams|last=Lee|first=Brianna|date=2015|access-date=26 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510021641/https://www.ibtimes.com/colombia-allows-transgender-community-change-sex-ids-without-physical-exams-1957412|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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 | [[Recognition (Finland)|Finland]]
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-| style="background-color:#f99;" |  Requires transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />
+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition as of 2023.
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 | [[Recognition (India)|India]]
 | style="background-color:#ffb;" |  India recognises transgender people as a third gender. Additionally, [[hijra]]s are also recognised as a third gender.<ref name="Biharprabha">{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court's Third Gender Status to Transgenders is a landmark |author= |work=Biharprabha News |date=15 April 2014 |access-date=26 September 2021 |url= https://news.biharprabha.com/2014/04/supreme-courts-third-gender-status-to-transgenders-is-a-landmark/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404095549/http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/04/supreme-courts-third-gender-status-to-transgenders-is-a-landmark/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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 | [[Recognition (Japan)|Japan]]
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+| style="background-color:#f99;" | M or F only.
-| style="background-color:#f99;" |  Japan made legal transition possible in 2004. In order to get one, Japan requires that a transgender person must be unmarried, has never had children, has had genital surgery, and has been sterilized.<ref>{{cite web |author=whitecasetokyo |url=http://www.impowr.org/content/current-legal-framework-transgender-issues-japan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902204720/https://www.impowr.org/content/current-legal-framework-transgender-issues-japan |archive-date=2 September 2018 |title=Current Legal Framework: Transgender Issues in Japan |date=26 November 2013 |website=International Models Project on Women's Rights (IMPOWR) |access-date=2 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+| style="background-color:#f99;" |  Japan made legal transition possible in 2004. In order to get one, Japan requires that a transgender person must be unmarried, has never had children, has had genital surgeried.
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+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  In May 2023, Mexico allows an "X" gender marker on passports.{{citation needed}}
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 | [[Recognition (Russia)|Russia]]
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-| style="background-color:#f99;" |Only intersex minors can change their legal gender. Affirmative surgeries are required
+| style="background-color:#f99;" |Only intersex minors can change their legal gender. Affirmative surgeries are required.
 |"Any medical intervention with a goal of creating in a person's body primary or secondary characteristics of the opposite sex is prohibited". People who have changed their legal gender aren't allowed to marry or adopt children. On October 2023 the court has banned "the international public movement of LGBT" as extremist with up to 12 years of imprisonment for people who belong to or support it. <ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist</ref>
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+| style="background-color:#f99;" | Sweden does not recognize a third or non-binary gender option, however introducing as such has once been proposed.
 | style="background-color:#ffb;" |  In 2012, Sweden stopped requiring transgender people to be coercively sterilized in order to transition,<ref>"Swedish Verdict outlawing forced Sterilisation (2012)." Transgender Europe. http://tgeu.org/administrative-court-of-appeal-in-stockholm-on-sterilisation-requirement-in-gender-recognition-legislation-19-dec-2012/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007100031/https://tgeu.org/administrative-court-of-appeal-in-stockholm-on-sterilisation-requirement-in-gender-recognition-legislation-19-dec-2012/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and in 2014, stopped requiring a mental health diagnosis in order to get legal gender recognition.<ref>"Swedish Court outlaws diagnosis requirement." September 7, 2014. Transgender Europe. http://tgeu.org/administrative-court-in-stockholm-striking-out-diagnosis-in-gender-recognition-16-05-2014/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221010154218/https://tgeu.org/administrative-court-in-stockholm-striking-out-diagnosis-in-gender-recognition-16-05-2014/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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 | [[Recognition (Switzerland)|Switzerland]]
 | style="background-color:#f99;" |  A proposal to add a third "X" gender marker is also under discussion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://360.ch/suisse/45258-le-debat-sur-le-3e-sexe-est-lance/ |title=Le débat sur le 3e sexe est lancé |website= 360º |date=2018 |language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208074945/https://360.ch/suisse/45258-le-debat-sur-le-3e-sexe-est-lance/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> In 2022, however the government refused to allow a third or non-binary gender option.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-gender-a48e05b6e5d0c307b3ead2bdd686f9a5</ref>
-| style="background-color:#f99;" |  Requires transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" /> However, a process to allow a legal gender changes without medical intervention in under public consultation.<ref>[https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-70852.html Transgender individuals should be able to change their official gender and first name without red tape], Swiss Government (2018) [https://web.archive.org/web/20221120051929/http://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-70852.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
+| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition as of 2022.
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 == External links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:LGBT rights by country or territory]]
-* [http://tgeu.org/toolkit_legal_gender_recognition_in_europe/ Transgender Europe: Toolkit: Legal gender recognition in Europe]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719142749/https://tgeu.org/toolkit_legal_gender_recognition_in_europe/ Transgender Europe: Toolkit: Legal gender recognition in Europe]
-* [http://tgeu.org/trans-rights-europe-card-game-2014/ Transgender Europe: Trans Rights Europe Card Game]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719142820/https://tgeu.org/trans-rights-europe-card-game-2014/ Transgender Europe: Trans Rights Europe Card Game]
-* [http://tgeu.org/trans-rights_europe_map_2016/ Transgender Europe: Trans Rights Europe Map & Index 2016]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719142842/https://tgeu.org/trans-rights_europe_map_2016/ Transgender Europe: Trans Rights Europe Map & Index 2016]
 == References ==