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EqLawyer edited an entry in South Dakota.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jul 1, 1980 to (none).
Legal gender recognition is permitted under a broad interpretation of South Dakota Codified Laws § 34-25-51 and South Dakota Administrative Rule (ARSD) 44:09:05:02. While the statute and…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Virginia.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Mar 27, 1979 to Sep 1, 2020.
Virginia officially codified legal gender recognition as part of a comprehensive revision of its vital statistics framework. The statute (Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-269(E)) mandated that the State…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Virginia.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Mar 27, 1979.
Virginia did not have a specific statutory provision explicitly addressing the amendment of sex designations on birth certificates for transgender individuals. However, historical court records…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Indiana.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from Mar 4, 2025 to (none).
Governor Mike Braun issued an Executive Order that effectively halted legal gender recognition in Indiana. The mandate directs all executive branch agencies, including the Indiana Department of…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Indiana.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jun 30, 1993 to Mar 4, 2025.
Legal gender recognition was enabled with the enactment of Indiana Code Ann. § 16-37-2-10, which officially took effect on July 1, 1993. While the statute is entirely silent on sex-reassignment…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Kentucky.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jun 27, 2022 to (none).
Kentucky's legal status was confirmed in an email sent by lawyer Todd Shipp of the KYTC Office of Legal Services. KRS 213.121 states; "Upon receipt of a sworn statement by a licensed…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Kentucky.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jul 13, 1990 to Jun 27, 2022.
KRS 213.121 states that an individual may have their birth certificate amended with proof from a licensed physician that their gender has been changed by a surgical procedure and court order of name…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Georgia.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Nov 1, 1982 to (none).
Legal gender recognition was formally codified into state law with the comprehensive rewrite of the vital records chapter under Ga. L. 1982, p. 723. Currently codified at Ga. Code Ann. §…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Georgia.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Oct 31, 1982.
Georgia law provided no explicit statutory provisions or established administrative procedures enabling transgender individuals to alter the gender marker on their civil status records. The civil…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Arkansas.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Feb 19, 1981 to (none).
Legal gender recognition was formally codified into state law when Senate Bill 256 (the Arkansas Vital Statistics Act of 1981). Codified at ARK. CODE ANN. § 20-18-307(d), the statute explicitly…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Arkansas.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Feb 19, 1981.
Prior to 1981, Arkansas law lacked explicit statutory provisions regarding gender marker changes on birth certificates. However, historical legislative documents from the era indicate that the…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Illinois.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jan 1, 1962 to Jan 1, 2018.
Illinois enacted a new Vital Statistics Act, becoming a statutory pioneer by explicitly authorizing gender marker changes. The law legally mandated the State Registrar to issue a new birth…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Missouri.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Apr 24, 1984 to (none).
Legal gender recognition was formally codified in Missouri on April 24, 1984, with the approval of Senate Bill 574 (the Uniform Vital Statistics Law). Currently codified at MO. REV. STAT. §…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Missouri.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Apr 24, 1984.
Missouri law was completely silent on the issue of amending gender markers on birth certificates. The state provided no statutory authority or established administrative procedure for transgender…
EqLawyer edited an entry in North Korea.
"this sounds like a requirement for surgery, as the administrative body expects a comprehensive evaluation by a forensic physician."
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Nov 26, 1997 to (none).
The legal framework for gender marker changes in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was formally established with the enactment of the Citizen Registration Law. Article 16 of this…
EqLawyer created an entry in Utah.
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from May 13, 1975 to 1995.
The State of Utah officially enacted legislation (1975 Utah Laws ch. 64, § 1) establishing a statutory framework for amending gender markers on birth certificates. The law strictly required…
EqLawyer edited an entry in New Mexico.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Apr 9, 1981 to Jun 15, 2019.
The existing administrative practice was formally codified into state law with the passage of the Vital Statistics Act (ch. 309, 1981 N.M. Laws 1521). Based on the Model State Vital Statistics Act…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Nevada.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Dec 3, 1984 to Feb 10, 2017.
Legal gender recognition was formally established in Nevada through an amendment to the Nevada Administrative Code (NAC). Specifically, NAC 440.130 mandated a strictly judicial and medicalized…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Nevada.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Dec 3, 1984.
Until 1984, there was no legal gender recognition provided in Nevada.
EqLawyer edited an entry in Colorado.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jul 1, 1984 to Jan 1, 2020.
the Vital Statistics Act of 1984 governed legal gender recognition in Colorado. The statute strictly required applicants to undergo gender-reassignment surgery and obtain a formal court order…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Montenegro.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jun 5, 1992 to Aug 3, 2008.
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…
EqLawyer created an entry in Kyrgyzstan.
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Dec 10, 1976 to Apr 19, 2005.
Operating under the legal framework of the Soviet Union, legal gender recognition became possible under Resolution No. 1006 issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Item 2, sub-item…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Kyrgyzstan.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires medical diagnosis from Apr 19, 2005 to Nov 7, 2020.
Legal gender recognition was officially regulated by statute and fully available in an administrative procedure. According to Article 72 of the Law on Acts of Civil Status (Law No. 60), civil…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Kyrgyzstan.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Nov 7, 2020 to (none).
With the entry into force of the new Law on Civil Status Acts (Law No. 110), direct provisions instructing registry offices regarding administrative gender change were removed from the text of the…
EqLawyer edited an entry in North Korea.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Nov 26, 1997 to (none).
The legal framework for gender marker changes in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was formally established with the enactment of the Citizen Registration Law. Article 16 of this…
EqLawyer created an entry in Armenia.
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Dec 10, 1976 to May 23, 2006.
Operating under the framework of the Soviet Union, legal gender recognition became possible under Resolution No. 1006 issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Item 2, sub-item 't' of…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Azerbaijan.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Oct 18, 1991 to (none).
Following independence, the legality of gender marker changes in the Republic of Azerbaijan was firmly established and explicitly codified through the Cabinet of Ministers Decision No. 52, issued on…
EqLawyer created an entry in Portugal.
Right to change legal gender: Illegal from (unknown) to Jan 31, 1981.
Absence of statutory provisions and administrative procedures. Attempts to amend civil status data at the Civil Registry (Registo Civil) were treated exclusively as the correction of a clerical…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Portugal.
"Clarification of information"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires medical diagnosis from Mar 15, 2011 to Aug 8, 2018.
The entry into force of Law No. 7/2011 (Lei n.º 7/2011 of Mar 15, 2011) transferred the procedure from the courts to the Civil Registry Offices (Conservatória do Registo Civil). The requirements…
EqLawyer edited an entry in Portugal.
"change of status"
Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jan 31, 1981 to Mar 15, 2011.
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…
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31 Regions Contributed To

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Poland
8
Russia
4
Finland
3
Portugal
3
Kyrgyzstan
3
Cyprus
2
Washington
2
Nevada
2
Norway
2
Moldova
2
Missouri
2
Ukraine
2
Arkansas
2
Hungary
2
Georgia
2
North Macedonia
2
North Korea
2
Kentucky
2
Bulgaria
2
Indiana
2
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