Current Version
| Region | Montenegro |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Jun 5, 1992 |
| End Date | Aug 3, 2008 |
| Description | Following the formation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro), legal gender recognition became accessible through an ad-hoc administrative practice rather than a specific statutory law. This precedent was established on June 5, 1992, when the Municipal Secretariat for General Administration of the Municipality of Savski Venac in Belgrade officially issued a decision approving the correction of the registered gender from female to male in the birth register. Because Montenegro shared this federal legal and administrative framework, transgender individuals could amend their civil status records. However, the procedure was strictly medicalized and implicitly required the applicant to have completed sex reassignment surgery, a branch of medicine pioneered in the region in 1989 by Dr. Sava Perović. |
| Sources | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MapB_TGEU2018_Online.pdf http://sluzbenilist.me/pregled-dokumenta/?id={22056243-3CB8-4B69-A2D5-EF2E3ECE9AE7} https://www.transserbia.org/vesti/190-izvrsena-prva-operacija-promene-pola-o-trosku-drzave https://vreme.com/vreme/kako-sam-promenio-pol/ |
| Federal Law | Yes |
Revision History (2)
| Old Value (Original) | New Value (Current) | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Illegal | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | (unknown) | Jun 5, 1992 |
| Description | Until 2008, there was no legal gender recognition provided in Montenegro. | Following the formation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro), legal gender recognition became accessible through an ad-hoc administrative practice rather than a specific statutory law. This precedent was established on June 5, 1992, when the Municipal Secretariat for General Administration of the Municipality of Savski Venac in Belgrade officially issued a decision approving the correction of the registered gender from female to male in the birth register. Because Montenegro shared this federal legal and administrative framework, transgender individuals could amend their civil status records. However, the procedure was strictly medicalized and implicitly required the applicant to have completed sex reassignment surgery, a branch of medicine pioneered in the region in 1989 by Dr. Sava Perović. |
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| Sources | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MapB_TGEU2018_Online.pdf http://sluzbenilist.me/pregled-dokumenta/?id={22056243-3CB8-4B69-A2D5-EF2E3ECE9AE7} | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MapB_TGEU2018_Online.pdf http://sluzbenilist.me/pregled-dokumenta/?id={22056243-3CB8-4B69-A2D5-EF2E3ECE9AE7} https://www.transserbia.org/vesti/190-izvrsena-prva-operacija-promene-pola-o-trosku-drzave https://vreme.com/vreme/kako-sam-promenio-pol/ |
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0 | Original entry | |
|---|---|
| Status | Illegal |
| Federal Law | Yes |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Aug 3, 2008 |
| Description | Until 2008, there was no legal gender recognition provided in Montenegro. |
| Sources | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MapB_TGEU2018_Online.pdf http://sluzbenilist.me/pregled-dokumenta/?id={22056243-3CB8-4B69-A2D5-EF2E3ECE9AE7} |