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| Region | Denmark |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Jun 1, 1929 |
| End Date | Sep 5, 2014 |
| Description | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa, however trans people are allowed to change their gender after they get diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have sex reassignment surgery. The Act on Sterilisation and Castration was passed in 1929 and has been used as a means for trans people to get legal recognition. |
| Sources | https://web.archive.org/web/20140910025959/https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law https://www.transviden.dk/kastrationslov |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Adding start date plus some corrections.
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| Start Date | (unknown) | Jun 1, 1929 |
| Description | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa, however trans people are allowed to change their gender after they get diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have sex riassignement surgery. | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa, however trans people are allowed to change their gender after they get diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have sex reassignment surgery. The Act on Sterilisation and Castration was passed in 1929 and has been used as a means for trans people to get legal recognition. |
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| Sources | http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law | https://web.archive.org/web/20140910025959/https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law https://www.transviden.dk/kastrationslov |
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edited by Samuel_NOT_Samuele. removed personal entry
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| Description | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa. I am transgendered and had surgery over a decade ago in Denmark, and my legal status was changed even before I was out of the hospital. This has been the case for Denmark since sex changes became an option. | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa, however trans people are allowed to change their gender after they get diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have sex riassignement surgery. |
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| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Sep 5, 2014 |
| Description | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa. I am transgendered and had surgery over a decade ago in Denmark, and my legal status was changed even before I was out of the hospital. This has been the case for Denmark since sex changes became an option. |
| Sources | http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law |
Reports (2)
- Status is not correct "In 2019 it became legal to change your name and legal gender on all your paperwork without surgery. This info you have is horribly outdated."
- Status is not correct "Please see below that a person can change their gender on all documents, not just the passport. This is from the site that was sourced on your page.
"the already previously existent possibility of a gender marker X in the passport is now also available upon application, without approval from the Gender Clinic.
The law gives any person who feels they belong to the other gender the right to change their official gender. There is a reflection period of 6 months after which you have to confirm that you still want to change your gender, and that you understand the consequences as they are mentioned in a letter from the authorities. This letter is about the rights that are linked to gender, eg. screening for breast cancer. If a person has previously applied to change their name, to have their gender in the passport marked with an X, or castration permit then the reflection period will be calculated from that date. Those who qualify for this have received letters from the authorities that they just need to phone in and confirm that they understand the consequences of the letter and then within a week they will receive a document with the new gender, which will allow them to change all their documents, e.g. passport, driving license etc.""