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| Region | Portugal |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Jan 31, 1981 |
| End Date | Mar 15, 2011 |
| Description | Based on the rulings of the Évora Court of Appeal (Tribunal da Relação de Évora, judgment of Jan 31, 1981) and the Lisbon Court of Appeal (Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa, judgment of Apr 5, 1984), gender change was legalized through a lawsuit against the state (acção de estado) before a common court. Lacking a specific statute, judges applied Article 10(3) of the Civil Code (Código Civil) to fill the legal vacuum. Established jurisprudence strictly required the plaintiff to provide proof of: legal age, single marital status, absence of descendants, one documented year living in the given social role, and the completion of irreversible genital sex reassignment surgery combined with irreversible sterilization. |
| Sources | http://dezanove.pt/152896.html https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/2011/03/05200/0145001451.pdf https://fll.um.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/44P_6_Emilia-de-Fatima-Ferreira-da-Rocha-Ramos-de-Paiva_Breves-notas-sobre-o-procedimento-de-mudanca-da-mencao-do-sexo-e-de-alteracao-do_pg21.pdf https://ilga-portugal.pt/noticias/Noticias/Transexualidade-ILGA-Portugal-net.pdf https://fll.um.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/44P_6_Emilia-de-Fatima-Ferreira-da-Rocha-Ramos-de-Paiva_Breves-notas-sobre-o-procedimento-de-mudanca-da-mencao-do-sexo-e-de-alteracao-do_pg21.pdf https://www.dgsi.pt/jtrl.nsf/e6e1f17fa82712ff80257583004e3ddc/f23a62e316cb9fbd802568030003dfad?OpenDocument |
| Federal Law | Yes |
Revision History (4)
| Old Value | New Value (Current) | |
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| Value | Illegal | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | (unknown) | Jan 31, 1981 |
| Description | Portugal created its modern civil registry system (Registo Civil) after the Republican revolution. From this point onward, sex on birth records was fixed and could not be legally altered. No procedure existed to change gender in legal documents. Courts and registry offices would reject changes except in extremely rare court-ordered cases (and those usually involved intersex people assigned a different gender at birth). | Based on the rulings of the Évora Court of Appeal (Tribunal da Relação de Évora, judgment of Jan 31, 1981) and the Lisbon Court of Appeal (Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa, judgment of Apr 5, 1984), gender change was legalized through a lawsuit against the state (acção de estado) before a common court. Lacking a specific statute, judges applied Article 10(3) of the Civil Code (Código Civil) to fill the legal vacuum. Established jurisprudence strictly required the plaintiff to provide proof of: legal age, single marital status, absence of descendants, one documented year living in the given social role, and the completion of irreversible genital sex reassignment surgery combined with irreversible sterilization. |
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| Sources | http://dezanove.pt/152896.html https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/2011/03/05200/0145001451.pdf | http://dezanove.pt/152896.html https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/2011/03/05200/0145001451.pdf https://fll.um.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/44P_6_Emilia-de-Fatima-Ferreira-da-Rocha-Ramos-de-Paiva_Breves-notas-sobre-o-procedimento-de-mudanca-da-mencao-do-sexo-e-de-alteracao-do_pg21.pdf https://ilga-portugal.pt/noticias/Noticias/Transexualidade-ILGA-Portugal-net.pdf https://fll.um.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/44P_6_Emilia-de-Fatima-Ferreira-da-Rocha-Ramos-de-Paiva_Breves-notas-sobre-o-procedimento-de-mudanca-da-mencao-do-sexo-e-de-alteracao-do_pg21.pdf https://www.dgsi.pt/jtrl.nsf/e6e1f17fa82712ff80257583004e3ddc/f23a62e316cb9fbd802568030003dfad?OpenDocument |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Date not necessary.
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0 | Old Value | New Value | |
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| Start Date | Feb 18, 1911 | (unknown) |
edited by Johnny_bjs. Very little detail and no beginning date
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| Start Date | (unknown) | Feb 18, 1911 |
| Description | Until 2011, legal gender recognition was not provided in Portugal. | Portugal created its modern civil registry system (Registo Civil) after the Republican revolution. From this point onward, sex on birth records was fixed and could not be legally altered. No procedure existed to change gender in legal documents. Courts and registry offices would reject changes except in extremely rare court-ordered cases (and those usually involved intersex people assigned a different gender at birth). |
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created by DaisyGeekyTrans
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Illegal |
| Federal Law | Yes |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Mar 15, 2011 |
| Description | Until 2011, legal gender recognition was not provided in Portugal. |
| Sources | http://dezanove.pt/152896.html https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/2011/03/05200/0145001451.pdf |