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| Region | Slovenia |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Start Date | 2005 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Under Article 37 of the Law on the Register of Deaths, Births and Marriages (2005), "medical certification" is required to attain legal gender recognition. However, there are no apparent criteria for what this "certification" must include or what level of medical intervention (if any) is required. Thus, in practice, the discretion lies with each individual registrar to accept or reject applicants. Before the change of gender marker is registered, the applicant must request a new EMSO (identification number). According to ILGA-Europe, in January 2017, the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a circular establishing that applicants seeking legal gender recognition had to present a certified statement that they have undergone gender affirming surgery. However, after substantial advocacy efforts by local NGOs, including Legebitra, TransAkcija, and Amnesty Slovenia, the Ministry backtracked and published a new circular establishing that applicants had to submit a "certified statement" issued by a psychiatrist merely stating that they had "changed their gender" and indicating that the medical procedures leading to “gender change” are irrelevant for the legal gender recognition procedure, thus reinstating the interpretation that was in place before January 2017. |
| Sources | https://database.ilga.org/slovenia-lgbti https://www.lgbti-era.org/countries/slovenia https://zagovornik.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Situation-of-Transgender-People-in-Procedures-for-Medical-Gender-Identity-Confirmation-and-Legal-Gender-Recognition-in-Slovenia-Selected-Chapters-1.pdf |
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Start Date | Jul 5, 2018 | 2005 |
| Description | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. Missing non binary options. "Regulation of Execution of the Register of Deaths, Births and Marriages Act defines legal gender recognition as a relatively quick administrative procedure as the application for legal gender recognition is submitted to one of the administration units in Slovenia. After the administration unit issues a new birth certificate reflecting one’s own gender (without reference to the previous gender), the person can apply for new documents. This is accessible only to persons aged 18 or more and with full legal capacity. There are no legal provisions for a third/other gender options." | Under Article 37 of the Law on the Register of Deaths, Births and Marriages (2005), "medical certification" is required to attain legal gender recognition. However, there are no apparent criteria for what this "certification" must include or what level of medical intervention (if any) is required. Thus, in practice, the discretion lies with each individual registrar to accept or reject applicants. Before the change of gender marker is registered, the applicant must request a new EMSO (identification number). According to ILGA-Europe, in January 2017, the Ministry of Internal Affairs published a circular establishing that applicants seeking legal gender recognition had to present a certified statement that they have undergone gender affirming surgery. However, after substantial advocacy efforts by local NGOs, including Legebitra, TransAkcija, and Amnesty Slovenia, the Ministry backtracked and published a new circular establishing that applicants had to submit a "certified statement" issued by a psychiatrist merely stating that they had "changed their gender" and indicating that the medical procedures leading to “gender change” are irrelevant for the legal gender recognition procedure, thus reinstating the interpretation that was in place before January 2017. |
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| Sources | https://www.lgbti-era.org/countries/slovenia https://zagovornik.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Situation-of-Transgender-People-in-Procedures-for-Medical-Gender-Identity-Confirmation-and-Legal-Gender-Recognition-in-Slovenia-Selected-Chapters-1.pdf | https://database.ilga.org/slovenia-lgbti https://www.lgbti-era.org/countries/slovenia https://zagovornik.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Situation-of-Transgender-People-in-Procedures-for-Medical-Gender-Identity-Confirmation-and-Legal-Gender-Recognition-in-Slovenia-Selected-Chapters-1.pdf |
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| Start Date | Feb 4, 2011 | Jul 5, 2018 |
| End Date | Jul 5, 2018 | (none) |
| Description | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. Missing non binary options. | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. Missing non binary options. "Regulation of Execution of the Register of Deaths, Births and Marriages Act defines legal gender recognition as a relatively quick administrative procedure as the application for legal gender recognition is submitted to one of the administration units in Slovenia. After the administration unit issues a new birth certificate reflecting one’s own gender (without reference to the previous gender), the person can apply for new documents. This is accessible only to persons aged 18 or more and with full legal capacity. There are no legal provisions for a third/other gender options." |
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| Sources | https://www.lgbti-era.org/countries/slovenia https://zagovornik.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Situation-of-Transgender-People-in-Procedures-for-Medical-Gender-Identity-Confirmation-and-Legal-Gender-Recognition-in-Slovenia-Selected-Chapters-1.pdf | |
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| End Date | Oct 12, 2017 | Jul 5, 2018 |
| Description | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. Missing non binary options. |
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| End Date | Sep 20, 2017 | Oct 12, 2017 |
| Description | Requires sterilization. | No requirements for surgery or sterilization. |
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| End Date | Sep 5, 2017 | Sep 20, 2017 |
| Description | No | Requires sterilization. |