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| Region | Belgium |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Jan 12, 1993 |
| Description | The Belgian legal system provided no statutory mechanism or established administrative procedure for the alteration of the gender marker in civil status records. The civil registry operated under strict biological determinism, and requests for such changes were generally rejected due to the lack of a legislative basis, as the sex assigned at birth was treated as an immutable fact determined by biological characteristics. |
| Sources | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 https://www.brusselstimes.com/30326/730-people-have-officially-changed-sex-in-belgium-since-1993 https://igvm-iefh.belgium.be/sites/default/files/media/documents/34%20-%20Transgender_ENG.pdf |
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| End Date | Sep 1, 2007 | Jan 12, 1993 |
| Description | Until 2007, there was no legal gender recognition provided in Belgium. | The Belgian legal system provided no statutory mechanism or established administrative procedure for the alteration of the gender marker in civil status records. The civil registry operated under strict biological determinism, and requests for such changes were generally rejected due to the lack of a legislative basis, as the sex assigned at birth was treated as an immutable fact determined by biological characteristics. |
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| Sources | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 https://www.brusselstimes.com/30326/730-people-have-officially-changed-sex-in-belgium-since-1993 https://igvm-iefh.belgium.be/sites/default/files/media/documents/34%20-%20Transgender_ENG.pdf |
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Sep 1, 2007 |
| Description | Until 2007, there was no legal gender recognition provided in Belgium. |
| Sources | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 |