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| [[Recognition (Nepal)|Nepal]] | | [[Recognition (Nepal)|Nepal]] | ||
| style="background-color:#9ff;" | Allows passports to use | | style="background-color:#9ff;" | Allows passports to use a third gender marker, called "other", which includes all transgender and nonbinary people.<ref>Clarissa-Jan Lim. "New "Third Gender" Option on Nepal Passports Finally Protects the Rights of LGBT Community." Bustle. January 8, 2015. http://www.bustle.com/articles/57466-new-third-gender-option-on-nepal-passports-finally-protects-the-rights-of-lgbt-community</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Netherlands)|Netherlands]] | | [[Recognition (Netherlands)|Netherlands]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Doesn't require 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 or any kind of therapy in order to have legal gender recognition, but it requires a diagnosis.<ref name="tre_map" /> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Norway)|Norway]] | | [[Recognition (Norway)|Norway]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | People over 16 can change their legal gender without any kind of diagnosis or treatment. Minors between 6 and 16 years old need their parents' permission.<ref>[https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/easier-to-change-legal-gender/id2480677/ Easier to change legal gender], Norwegian Government (2016)</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Pakistan)|Pakistan]] | | [[Recognition (Pakistan)|Pakistan]] | ||
| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Pakistan legally recognises [[Hijra|hijras]] and [[Eunuch|eunuchs]]. <ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/for-transgender-pakistanis-newfound-rights/2012/02/04/gIQAM0jG4Q_story.html?utm_term=.584326826f45</ref> | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | Pakistan legally recognises [[Hijra|hijras]] and [[Eunuch|eunuchs]], even though transgender topics are generally taboo. <ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/for-transgender-pakistanis-newfound-rights/2012/02/04/gIQAM0jG4Q_story.html?utm_term=.584326826f45</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Poland)|Poland]] | | [[Recognition (Poland)|Poland]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | Transgender people must undergo [[sex reassignment surgery]] before changing their legal gender.<ref name="tre_map" /> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Portugal)|Portugal]] | | [[Recognition (Portugal)|Portugal]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | Transgender people can change their legal gender without any requeriments. Minors who are 16 or 17 years old need their parents's permission and a favorable opinion from a psychologist.<ref name="tre_map" /> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Romania)|Romania]] | | [[Recognition (Romania)|Romania]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#f99;" | Requires transgender people to | | style="background-color:#f99;" | Requires transgender people to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" /> Genital surgery is required in order to change legal sex.<ref> "Transsexualismul in Romania" . Accept Romania. Retrieved 11 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711092809/http://accept-romania.ro/lgbt-issues/trans/</ref> Allowed to marry in accordance with new legal sex. | ||
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| [[Recognition (South Korea)|South Korea]] | | [[Recognition (South Korea)|South Korea]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | While the Supreme Court declared that transgender people need to undergo SRS in order to change their legal gender, in 2013 a court ruled that five transgender people could make the change without a surgery, and the same happened in 2017.<ref>[http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/578323.html Landmark legal ruling for South Korean transgenders], Hankyoreh (2013)</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Spain)|Spain]] | | [[Recognition (Spain)|Spain]] | ||
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| style="background-color:#ffb;" | | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | All transgender people may change their legal gender without a surgery, including minors.<ref>[https://chrysallis.org.es/excluir-a-menores-trans-es-inconstitucional/ Excluir a menores trans es inconstitucional], Chrysalis (2019, in Spanish)</ref> | ||
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| [[Recognition (Switzerland)|Switzerland]] | | [[Recognition (Switzerland)|Switzerland]] | ||
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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:#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)</ref> A proposal to add a third "X" gender marker is also under discussion.<ref>[https://360.ch/suisse/45258-le-debat-sur-le-3e-sexe-est-lance/ Le débat sur le 3e sexe est lancé], 360º (2018, in French)</ref> | ||
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