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| [[Recognition (Bolivia)|Bolivia]] | | [[Recognition (Bolivia)|Bolivia]] | ||
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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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| [[Recognition (Finland)|Finland]] | | [[Recognition (Finland)|Finland]] | ||
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| style="background-color:# | | 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 (Mexico)|Mexico]] | | [[Recognition (Mexico)|Mexico]] | ||
| | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | In May 2023, Mexico allows an "X" gender marker on passports.{{citation needed}} | ||
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| [[Recognition (Russia)|Russia]] | | [[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> | |"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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| [[Recognition (Sweden)|Sweden]] | | [[Recognition (Sweden)|Sweden]] | ||
| | | 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> | | 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]] | | [[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;" | 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:# | | 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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