Entry #374: Right to change legal gender in Sweden

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RegionSweden
IssueRight to change legal gender
StatusLegal, but requires surgery
Start DateJul 1, 1972
End DateJan 9, 2013
DescriptionChanges of gender were only legally recognised if the individual had undergone sterilisation.
Sourceshttp://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113
Reports (1)
  • Duplicate entry "duplicate of https://www.equaldex.com/log/374 ADMIN NOTE: Duplicate, needs deleting please :)"

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End Date(none)Jan 9, 2013
DescriptionChanges of gender were only legally recognised if the individual had undergone sterilisation.
Sourceshttp://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113

created by PaulBrierley

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StatusLegal, but requires surgery
Start DateJul 1, 1972
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  • Status is not correct "It’s legal in Sweden currently, without required surgery. The ones that were forced to undergo surgery are being offered compensation."
  • Status is not correct "not since 2013"
  • Status is not correct "Need to change legal gender to be allowed surgery, not need surgery to change legal gender http://transformering.se/vardhalsa/transvard/andra-juridiskt-kon"
  • Newer law has been passed "The requirements are gone since 2013."
  • Newer law has been passed
  • Status is not correct "article literally states that it was repealed"
  • Status is not correct "No surgery is required to change your legal gender, but you have to have changed your legal gender to have Sex reassignment surgery."
  • Status is not correct "Surgery is not required. http://transformering.se/vardhalsa/transvard/andra-juridiskt-kon"
  • Status is not correct "Up until 2013 Sweden required sterilization, which itself required surgery, in order to change legal sex. In 2013 the law was changed and Sweden no longer require surgery. (It is the other way around, if you want surgery you require a diagnosis). Sources (sorry only know swedish ones): http://transformering.se/vardhalsa/transvard/andra-juridiskt-kon (swedish site on transgender issues) https://www.1177.se/Vastra-Gotaland/liv--halsa/konsidentitet-och-sexuell-laggning/konsdysfori/ (official swedish site with health care information for sex dysphoria) https://lagen.nu/1972:119 (unofficial site with the law) https://lagen.nu/1972:119?diff=true&from=2012%3A456 (the same site with the law as it was before 2013)"
  • Other "You don't need surgary anymore to change legal gender you just need a diagnoses of gender disforya. Hope I am corecet"
  • Status is not correct "Surgery is no longer required for changing legal gender. However a legal gender change is required to be allowed gender reconstructive surgery of genitals. https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/utveckla-verksamhet/jamlik-halsa-vard-och-omsorg/hbtq/konstillhorighet/"
  • Newer law has been passed "Law (1972:119) You don't have to go through any surgeries for legal gender to change but you have to change legal gender for surgery."
  • Status is not correct "I believe this changed in 2013. https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/"
  • Status is not correct "Since 2013, surgery is no longer required to change gender. However, a diagnosis of transsexualism is still required (maybe this calls for a separate catergory “legal, but diagnosis required”)"
  • Newer law has been passed "Prior to 2013, a gender change required sterilization. This was declared unconstitutional by the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal on December 19, 2012, and the requirement was effectively abolished when that judgment entered into force on January 10, 2013. The law was subsequently changed (by law 2013:405) on July 1, 2013. An English-language article on this: https://www.thelocal.se/20130111/45550"
  • Status is not correct "This was changed in 2013. See Wikipedia. "
  • Status is not correct "Legal but requires diagnosis"
  • Status is not correct "You do not have to go through surgeries to legally change your gender in Sweden. (source: http://transformering.se/vardhalsa/transvard/andra-juridiskt-kon"
  • Newer law has been passed "In January of 2013, a court ruling overturned the previous demand that a transsexual person undergo surgery (i.e. sterilization) in order to qualify for a change of legal gender. The basis for this decision was that it went against the ECHR and and Swedish constitution. On the 1st of July of the same year, parliament approved a change to the law which governs gender identity, where this criterion was omitted. So, although not technically a new law, the old one was revised in order to agree with the court's decision. It is worth noting, however, that although an operation is no longer required, you still cannot have a registered partner, so basically you have to be unmarried to change your legal gender."
  • Newer law has been passed "https://www.1177.se/Tema/Sex-och-relationer/Sexuell-laggning---homo-bi-och-hetero/Konsinkongruens/"
  • Status is not correct "New swedish laws from 2013 no longer require surgery for legal gender change."
  • Newer law has been passed "Legal, you only have to be 18 and diagnosed with "transsexualism.""
  • Newer law has been passed "Since July 1, 2013, the requirement for surgery has been removed. A Supreme Court ruling from January that year first invalidated the law, which was then independently followed by a revision of the law and removal of the requirement to undergo corrective surgery: http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dokument-Lagar/Lagar/Svenskforfattningssamling/Lag-1972119-om-faststalland_sfs-1972-119/?bet=1972:119#overgang The "current status" should read: Legal, but requires a medical diagnosis and [lengthy] psychiatric evaluation. For more details and comprehensive sources see: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Könskorrigering_i_Sverige#Lag.C3.A4ndringar (Swedish source) https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKönskorrigering_i_Sverige%23Lag.C3.A4ndringar&edit-text= (English auto-translation)"