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| Region | Azerbaijan |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Apr 5, 1972 |
| End Date | Oct 18, 1991 |
| Description | The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed |
| Sources | https://bigpicture.ru/ya-peredumala-istoriya-pervoj-operacii-po-smene-pola/ |
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Revision History (19)
edited by jadeywadey. added an end date
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| End Date | (none) | Oct 18, 1991 |
| Description | the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed | The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed |
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edited by JuliaB. it's possible to change legal gender in azerbaijan after sex reassignment surgery
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| Value | Illegal | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | (unknown) | Apr 5, 1972 |
| Description | Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender. | the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed |
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| Sources | https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf | https://bigpicture.ru/ya-peredumala-istoriya-pervoj-operacii-po-smene-pola/ |
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- Status is not correct "More outdated as while this was true during the Soviet Union, unfortunately Azerbaijan has no means to legal gender recognition and trans people are often subject to harassment.
https://outrightinternational.org/our-work/europe-and-central-asia/azerbaijan"
- Status is not correct "Availability of Legal Gender Recognition: The government does not permit individuals to change gender identity markers on legal and identifying documents to align them with their gender identity.
Source: 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 20, 2023
US
Only name change is allowed according to wikipedia"
edited by Pizzaslices412653
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Illegal |
| Sources | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trans-mapA_Map2016july.pdf | https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf |
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Illegal | Ambiguous |
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- Newer law has been passed "Transgender people are allowed to change their gender according to sex assignment surgery"
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Illegal |
edited by Muhammadaji2022
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Legal, no restrictions | Ambiguous |
| Description | Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents. | Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender. |
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| Description | Surgery is allowed but not required. | Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents. |
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| Value | Legal, but requires surgery | Legal, no restrictions |
| Description | Requires sterilization. | Surgery is allowed but not required. |
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| Description | Requires sterilization | Requires sterilization. |
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Description | Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options. | Requires sterilization |
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| Sources | No | https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trans-mapA_Map2016july.pdf |
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| Value | Legal, but requires surgery | Legal, no restrictions |
| Description | Requires surgery and sterilization. | Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options. |
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| Description | Requires surgery. | Requires surgery and sterilization. |
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Description | No | Requires sterilization. |
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| Description | Requires Sterilization. ruled sterilization not legal by eu. | No |
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| Description | Requires Sterilization | Requires Sterilization. ruled sterilization not legal by eu. |
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- Other "Controversy between the status and note field."
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| Description | No | Requires Sterilization |
| Sources | transrespect.org | No |