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| Region | Belgium |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Sep 1, 2007 |
| End Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
| Description | Transgender people in Belgium are required to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to change their gender on state documents. |
| Sources | http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 |
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| Start Date | 2007 | Sep 1, 2007 |
| Sources | http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 | http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 |
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| Description | Belgian transexuals are required to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to change their gender on state documents. | Transgender people in Belgium are required to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to change their gender on state documents. |
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- Newer law has been passed
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| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | 2007 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Belgian transexuals are required to undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to change their gender on state documents. |
| Sources | http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2007051055 |
Reports (16)
- Newer law has been passed "Gender change on documents is possible without gender reassignment surgery"
- Newer law has been passed "No longer valid as of 2018. A new law was passed that makes surgery or psychological evaluation unnecessary, making it a purely bureaucratic process.
Source: https://justitie.belgium.be/en/themes_and_files/people_and_families/new_legislation_for_transgender_persons"
- Newer law has been passed "Surgery and sterilisation is no longer required. Self determination is all that is required."
- Status is not correct "Belgium changed their law in 2017 - https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/new-legal-gender-recognition-belgium"
- Status is not correct "Since 2017 medical intervention such as surgery is not required for changing your gender marker in Belgium"
- Status is not correct "Here it is right, but up here in the big symbols (green and red), it says 'legal, but requires surgery'. That's not correct."
- Status is not correct "The law changed on 01/01/2018.
An operation is no longer required.
See:
https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/new-legal-gender-recognition-belgium
https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/42589/parliament-approves-law-on-transgender-individuals/
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=2017062503
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2017062503&table_name=loi"
- Status is not correct "Surgery not required."
- Status is not correct "Since january 1, 2018 - transgender people can ask for a change of legal gender without surgery. "
- Status is not correct "since january third 2018 it is no longer required that te person has undergone surgery in order to be able to change his/her gender on their identification"
- Status is not correct "Changed since January 1 2018"
- Status is not correct "The law has been changed and medical surgery is not any longer needed to change gender identity"
- Status is not correct "Legal + surgery not required in Belgium since 1 January 2018. Please change this on your website. I think the status in Malta has also recently been changed to "Legal, surgery not required""
- Status is not correct "This is not the current status anymore. Since 2007 sterilisation isn't legally required anymore to change your gender on official records. Since 2018 it became a purely administrative action, an evaluation of a psychologist isn't needed anymore, nor are any courts."
- Newer law has been passed "Sex change does not require sterilisation and name chage does not require sex change since 2018 https://www.demorgen.be/binnenland/van-geslacht-veranderen-kan-nu-zonder-operatie-bae960b0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory https://transgenderinfo.be/m/praktisch/ "
- Status is not correct "In Belgium, transgender people have to be sterilized to get their legal gender changed and they HAVE TO have this surgery to change their papers."