Right to change legal gender around the world (as of April 2023)
Some more information:
Gender self-determination: Started in Argentina, Gender self-identification is the concept that a person’s legal sex or gender should be determined by their gender identity without any medical requirements, such as via statutory declaration. (Found in much of the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and Pakistan)
Prohibitive requirements: Right to change legal gender without surgery, but a court order, physician/clinical recommendation, therapy, or medical record requirements might be necessary. (Found in the Americas, most of Europe, Southern Africa, parts of Asia, and Oceania)
Sex-reassignment surgery required: Must get a sex change/surgery in order to change legal gender. (Found in Eastern Europe, Asia, Middle East, Oceania, Namibia, several US States, and Panama)
Potential legislation pending: Law currently pending to legalize gender identity change or upgrade to gender self-determination. (El Salvador, Peru, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines)
No legal gender identity change: Can’t change legal gender, other laws and views on transgender people vary by country. (Most of Africa, and some parts of the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia)
Right to change legal gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (2023)
Self-determination: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bonaire, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, 21 Mexican states.
Prohibitive requirements: Peru, Bolivia, Suriname, 11 Mexican states
SRS required: Panama, US Virgin Islands
Complicated: El Salvador
No legal gender identity change: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Venezuela, Paraguay, Jamaica, Bahamas, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Montserrat, Falkland Islands, Aruba, St. Maarten, Curacao, British Virgin Islands.
