Gender recognition: Difference between revisions

| style="background-color:#E80;" |  Transgender persons can change their legal gender and name after completion of medical intervention in most provinces and territories (not required in Ontario, British Columbia, and Manitoba).<ref>Northwest Territories Human Rights Act, S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.</ref><ref>"Ontario passes law to protect transgender people" CBC News June 13, 2012. Accessed June 13, 2012 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/06/13/ontario-gender-equality.html</ref><ref>http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=C53953157EE344A681EFD28325B526F4</ref><ref>http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/change_of_sex_designation.html</ref>

|  Explicit anti-discrimination protections for transgender people only in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, implicit elsewhere.

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| [[Recognition (Colombia)|Colombia]]

| 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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#cite_note-143</ref>

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| [[Recognition (Croatia)|Croatia]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />

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| [[Recognition (Cyprus)|Cyprus]]

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| [[Recognition (Czech Republic)|Czech Republic]]

| 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 (Denmark)|Denmark]]

| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  Allows passports to use a nonbinary gender option, X.<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> You can change it simply by applying for it.<ref>http://www.wclc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/How-to-change-your-name-and-gender-under-New-Zealand-law.pdf</ref>

| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  Since 1995, in order to change the gender on your birth certificate, you need to show that you wish to live in your intended gender, and that you have undergone "medical treatment" for it.<ref>http://www.wclc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/How-to-change-your-name-and-gender-under-New-Zealand-law.pdf</ref> You can change your driver's license simply by applying for it.<ref>http://www.wclc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/How-to-change-your-name-and-gender-under-New-Zealand-law.pdf</ref>

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | New Zealand allows asylum seekers who face harm on the basis of "gender" and "identity".<ref>https://www.immigration.govt.nz/audiences/supporting-refugees-and-asylum-seekers/asylum-seekers</ref>

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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" />

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| [[Recognition (Philippines)|Philippines]]

| style="background-color:#f99;" |  This country doesn't allow transgender people to change their legal sex, but made an exception for an intersex person.

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| [[Recognition (Poland)|Poland]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />

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| [[Recognition (Portugal)|Portugal]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />

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| [[Recognition (Romania)|Romania]]

| style="background-color:#f99;" |  Requires transgender people to be sterilized 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 2 December 2012. http://accept-romania.ro/lgbt-issues/trans/</ref>  Allowed to marry in accordance with new legal sex.

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| [[Recognition (Russia)|Russia]]

| 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 (Serbia)|Serbia]]

| 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 (Slovakia)|Slovakia]]

| 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 (Slovenia)|Slovenia]]

| 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 (South Africa)|South Africa]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Since 2003, legal gender can be changed after medical treatment. Hormone therapy is seen as enough, surgery isn't required.<ref>"Changing your name and gender in your identity document: the Alteration of Sex Description Act 49 of 2003" (PDF). Gender Dynamix. Retrieved 29 September 2013. http://www.genderdynamix.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Act-49-English.pdf</ref>

|  Anti-discrimination laws are interpreted to include gender identity.

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| [[Recognition (South Korea)|South Korea]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  In 2013 a court ruled that transsexuals can change their legal sex without undergoing genital surgery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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| [[Recognition (Spain)|Spain]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map" />

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| [[Recognition (Sweden)|Sweden]]

| 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/</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/</ref>

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| [[Recognition (Switzerland)|Switzerland]]

| 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 (Turkey)|Turkey]]

| 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 (UK)|United Kingdom]]

| style="background-color:#f99;" |  All US official identity documents (passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, and so on) that record gender (called "sex" in those documents) require people to be called either female or male, with no nonbinary options. This makes problems not only for people who have always lived in the country. The US State Department has no process for dealing with people who have nonbinary passports from other countries.<ref>Jenny Kutner. "U.S. State Department has no process for accepting transgender passports." May 7, 2015. Salon. http://www.salon.com/2015/05/07/u_s_state_department_has_no_process_for_accepting_transgender_passports/</ref> In 2016, Jamie Shupe of Oregon became the first person in the USA whose legal sex is "non-binary,"<ref>Casey Parks, "Oregon court allows person to change sex from 'female' to 'non-binary'." June 10, 2016. The Oregonian (news). http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/06/oregon_court_allows_person_to.html</ref> and uses identity documents that typically don't display sex (military retiree and social security cards), but the DMV doesn't yet allow nonbinary driver's licenses.<ref>Bob Heye, "Oregon DMV says they can't issue driver's license for non-binary individual." Katu News. http://local21news.com/news/local/oregon-dmv-says-they-cant-issue-drivers-license-for-non-binary-individual</ref>

| style="background-color:#F81;" |  Each state has different laws regarding legal transition. Most states require proof of surgery in order to legally transition, and the rest require a letter from a doctor saying you've had some kind of transition.

|  In the USA, documents and ID rarely show a person's title.

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