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| style="background-color:# | | style="background-color:#9FF;" | The first passport with an "X" as a gender marker was issued on May 14, 2019 to the [[intersex]] activist [[Alex Jürgen]], thanks to the country's constitutional court, who ruled that citizens have the right to have their gender identity accurately represented in their official documents.<ref name="pinknews_austria">[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/14/austria-third-gender-option-documents/ Austria recognises third gender option in official documents] — PinkNews.co.uk</ref> | ||
| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map">Europe Map & Index 2017." ''Transgender Europe''. http://tgeu.org/trans-rights-map-2017/</ref> | | style="background-color:#ffb;" | Doesn't require transgender people to be sterilized in order to have legal gender recognition.<ref name="tre_map">Europe Map & Index 2017." ''Transgender Europe''. http://tgeu.org/trans-rights-map-2017/</ref> As for the civil registry, the term "divers" can be used as long as the person can provide a document certifying their [[intersexual|intersexuality]].<ref name="pinknews_austria"/> | ||
| style="background-color:#FFB;" | It is possible to change to an ambiguous name. However, there are high fees for a name change unless one can prove to have a reason that is approved by the state. A name that doesn't correspond to the legal gender can also be chosen, but only as a second or third name - the name that is listed first has to correspond to the legal gender or be ambiguous.<ref>"Vornamensänderung." TransX. http://www.transx.at/Pub/Recht_Vornamen.php</ref> | | style="background-color:#FFB;" | It is possible to change to an ambiguous name. However, there are high fees for a name change unless one can prove to have a reason that is approved by the state. A name that doesn't correspond to the legal gender can also be chosen, but only as a second or third name - the name that is listed first has to correspond to the legal gender or be ambiguous.<ref>"Vornamensänderung." TransX. http://www.transx.at/Pub/Recht_Vornamen.php</ref> | ||
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