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| [[Recognition (Colombia)|Colombia]]
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| 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>
| 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}}</ref>
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| [[Recognition (India)|India]]
| [[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>"Supreme Court’s Third Gender Status to Transgenders is a landmark" http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/04/supreme-courts-third-gender-status-to-transgenders-is-a-landmark/</ref>
| 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/}}</ref>
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| 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 name="ScarletJimsonHealey">{{cite web| url=http://www.wclc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/How-to-change-your-name-and-gender-under-New-Zealand-law.pdf |title=How to change your name and gender under New Zealand law |last1=Scarlet|first1=Kate |last2=Jimson-Healey |first2=Rosie |date=July 2013}}</ref>
| 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 name="ScarletJimsonHealey">{{cite web| url=http://www.wclc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/How-to-change-your-name-and-gender-under-New-Zealand-law.pdf |title=How to change your name and gender under New Zealand law |last1=Scarlet|first1=Kate |last2=Jimson-Healey |first2=Rosie |date=July 2013}}</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 name="ScarletJimsonHealey" /> You can change your driver's license simply by applying for it.<ref name="ScarletJimsonHealey" />
| 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 name="ScarletJimsonHealey" /> You can change your driver's license simply by applying for it.<ref name="ScarletJimsonHealey" />
| style="background-color:#f99;" | New Zealand allows asylum seekers or refugees 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>. However, in its refugee confirmation form<ref>https://www.immigration.govt.nz/documents/forms-and-guides/inz1071.pdf</ref>, it only allows binary options.
| style="background-color:#9ff;" | New Zealand allows asylum seekers or refugees 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>. In the New Zealand refugee confirmation form, the options for gender are "Male", "Female", and "Other (specify)" which is a write-in field.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.immigration.govt.nz/documents/forms-and-guides/inz1071.pdf |title=Confirmation of Claim to Refugee and Protection Status in New Zealand|date=March 2021|access-date=26 September 2021}}</ref>
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| [[Recognition (Norway)|Norway]]
| [[Recognition (Norway)|Norway]]
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| [[Recognition (South Korea)|South Korea]]
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| 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>
| 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>{{Cite web |title=Landmark legal ruling for South Korean transgenders |author= |work=The Hankyoreh |date=16 March 2013 |access-date=26 September 2021 |url= http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/578323.html}}</ref>
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