Gender Recognition Resources

Find here examples of laws, proposals and court decisions regarding legal gender recognition.

• Athens Civil Court outlaws sterilisation requirement (2016)
• Norway: Law amending the legal gender (2016)
• Italy: Constitutional Court declares divorce requirement unconstitutional (2014/2015)
• Ireland: Gender Recognition Act (2015)
• Italian Supreme Court rules against Sterilisation Requirement (20 July 2015)
• Administrative District Court of Kiev rules against forced surgery requirement (10 July 2015)
• Administrative District Court of Kiev rules against abusive requirments (presence of minor children, unemployment) (30 June 2015)
• Administrative District Court of Kiev rules against sterilisation requirement (19 June 2015)
• Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act, Malta (01. April 2015)
• ECHR ending sterilisation requirement for gender reassignmet surgery YY v. Turkey (10 March 2015)
• Administrative Court in Stockholm striking out diagnosis in gender recognition (16.05.2014)
• Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm on Sterilisation Requirement in Gender Recognition Legislation (19 Dec 2012)
• Argentina Gender Identity Law
• Austrian High Court of Administration on genital surgery requirement (2009)
• Danish trans law amendments 2014 (L 182 Motion to amend the Act on the (Danish) Civil Registration System)
• German Federal Court Outlawing Forced Sterilisation (2011)
• Ireland Legal Recognition of Gender Act 2013 (Draft Law)
• France Rennes Court of Appeal says divorce requirment is not necesssary for gender recognition (2012)
• Portugal Gender Identity Law
• Sweden Gender Recognition Act (reformed 2012)
• German Constitutional Court Outlawing Divorce Requirement (2008)
• Austrian Constitutional Court Outlawing Divorce Requirement (2006)
• Swiss St. Gallen District Court outlawing Divorce Requirment (1996)