Gender recognition: Difference between revisions

| style="background-color:#9ff" |  As of June 2019, Canada allows for "X" in the sex field of immigration documents including passports and proof of citizenship certificates <ref>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/gender-x-documents.html</ref>. Some provinces allow-- or plan to soon allow-- hidden or "X" markers on identity documents such as birth certificates and driver's licenses; see [[Recognition (Canada)]] for the latest details on which.

| style="background-color:#FFB;" |  Requirements vary from province to province. Generally minimally medical intervention is required. Explicit anti-discrimination protections for transgender people only in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, implicit elsewhere.

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| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  In February 2022, the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that a non-binary person was entitled to a birth certificate and identity card with a "no binario"/"NB" gender marker.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/08/colombias-constitutional-court-advances-gender-diversity</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 (Denmark)|Denmark]]

| style="background-color:#ffb;" |  Since 2014, no longer requires sterilization, gender identity disorder diagnosis, or ending a marriage in order to change legal sex.<ref>"Denmark becomes Europe’s leading country on legal gender recognition | The European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights" . Lgbt-ep.eu. 2014-06-12. Retrieved 2015-04-10. http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/denmark-becomes-europes-leading-country-on-legal-gender-recognition/</ref> Requires applicants to be over 18, and to wait six months after applying before legal sex change takes effect.<ref>{{cite web|title=World must follow Denmark's example after landmark transgender law.| website=Amnesty International |date=12 June 2014 |url=http://amnesty.org/en/en/news/denmark-transgender-law-2014-06-12 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140704235720/http://amnesty.org/en/en/news/denmark-transgender-law-2014-06-12 |archive-date=4 July 2014}}</ref>   

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | Danish law includes protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.<ref name="SSH-worldsurvey">{{cite web|url=https://ilga.org/downloads/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2013.pdf |title= State-sponsored Homophobia: A world survey of laws: Criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love |last1=Itaborahy |first1=Lucas Paoli |last2=Zhu |first2=Jingshu}}</ref><ref>[http://www.non-discrimination.net/content/main-legislation-17 Main legislation]</ref> Danish law includes hate crimes legislation, which adds extra penalties for crimes committed against people because of their sexuality and for their gender identity or form of gender expression.<ref name="SSH-worldsurvey" />

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| [[Recognition (Kenya)|Kenya]]

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| style="background-color:#9ff;" |  The only requirement for a neutral gender marker is an oath in front of a notary.<ref name="Sansone2018" />

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| [[Recognition (Montenegro)|Montenegro]]