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| Region | Kuwait |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Transgender people are still deported after removal of a penal code in 2007, that states article 198, which prohibited “imitating the opposite sex." is unconstitutional. HRW reported in 2022 that the Kuwait times published an article stating the police deported 3,000 transgender and gay people because they "imitated" the opposite sex. |
| Sources | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/kuwait#:~:text=The%20penal%20code%20criminalizes%20adultery,to%20seven%20years%20in%20prison. https://timeskuwait.com/news/kuwait-deports-3000-cross-dressers-transgender-expats-in-11-months/ |
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deleted by qcksws. fixing to have the editor, this guy only made 2 edits since his account creation
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| Description | Trans people are not allowed to change their legal gender. | Transgender people are still deported after removal of a penal code in 2007, that states article 198, which prohibited “imitating the opposite sex." is unconstitutional. HRW reported in 2022 that the Kuwait times published an article stating the police deported 3,000 transgender and gay people because they "imitated" the opposite sex. |
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| Sources | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://database.ilga.org/kuwait-lgbti | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/kuwait#:~:text=The%20penal%20code%20criminalizes%20adultery,to%20seven%20years%20in%20prison. https://timeskuwait.com/news/kuwait-deports-3000-cross-dressers-transgender-expats-in-11-months/ |
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edited by Notdog1996. Wrong status, description irrelevant
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | N/A | Illegal |
| Start Date | 2022 | (unknown) |
| Description | There are no laws criminalizing transgender people, but they are still not allowed to change their legal gender. | Trans people are not allowed to change their legal gender. |
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| Sources | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://database.ilga.org/kuwait-lgbti |
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| Description | No law criminalizing transgenders, but Transgender people are still not legally allowed to change legal gender. | There are no laws criminalizing transgender people, but they are still not allowed to change their legal gender. |
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Reports (1)
- Newer law has been passed
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| Start Date | 2021 | 2022 |
edited by LGBT_southeastasian
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | N/A |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | (REMOVED) |
edited by LGBT_southeastasian
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | Ambiguous |
| Description | People in Kuwaiti cannot legally change their gender. | No law criminalizing transgenders, but Transgender people are still not legally allowed to change legal gender. |
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| Sources | the kuwaits hospitals | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html |
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| Description | kuwaiti people can not transgender | People in Kuwaiti cannot legally change their gender. |
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- Status is not correct
- Other "If there is human rights in Kuwait just let the people be themselves committing suicide because they can’t tell anyone that they are homosexuals how can people live like this arresting them and thinking that they will suddenly change no! It will let them think that they can’t be who they are and then they start questioning themselves until they are tired of being alive "
- Status is not correct "Changing gender illegal "
- Status is not correct "With medical proof of the eligibility of the need to change , it could be done legally "
created by billyjames
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| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | kuwaiti people can not transgender |
| Sources | the kuwaits hospitals |