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| Region | Sweden |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Start Date | Jan 9, 2013 |
| End Date | Jul 1, 2025 |
| Description | Legal gender recognition is available in Sweden under the Law on Gender Determination in Certaing Cases (Law No. 1972:119) (1972). Although it has been reformed several times, it still includes pathologizing requirements such as medical diagnosis and a "real life" test. Applications are made to the National Health and Welfare Board. They must be accompanied by a medical report stating that the person has undergone the primary “investigation”, via psychiatrist, to confirm the “diagnosis of transsexualism”. (ILGA) |
| Sources | https://database.ilga.org/sweden-lgbti https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2013-01-11/sweden-amended-transgender-law-now-in-force/#:~:text=Among%20other%20changes%2C%20a%20compulsory%20sterilization%20requirement%20%28previously,foreign%20country%20or%20a%20resident%20there%20%28new%C2%A7%203a%29. |
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Revision History (5)
edited by Unknownmiles. Fixing the status
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| End Date | (NONE) | Jul 1, 2025 |
edited by Notdog1996. Fixing the date, adding a source
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| Start Date | 1972 | Jan 9, 2013 |
| Sources | https://database.ilga.org/sweden-lgbti https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ | https://database.ilga.org/sweden-lgbti https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2013-01-11/sweden-amended-transgender-law-now-in-force/#:~:text=Among%20other%20changes%2C%20a%20compulsory%20sterilization%20requirement%20%28previously,foreign%20country%20or%20a%20resident%20there%20%28new%C2%A7%203a%29. |
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Start Date | Jan 10, 2013 | 1972 |
| Description | A psychiatric or psychological evaluation and diagnosis is required. | Legal gender recognition is available in Sweden under the Law on Gender Determination in Certaing Cases (Law No. 1972:119) (1972). Although it has been reformed several times, it still includes pathologizing requirements such as medical diagnosis and a "real life" test. Applications are made to the National Health and Welfare Board. They must be accompanied by a medical report stating that the person has undergone the primary “investigation”, via psychiatrist, to confirm the “diagnosis of transsexualism”. (ILGA) |
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| Sources | https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ | https://database.ilga.org/sweden-lgbti https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ |
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| Description | The Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal ruled that requiring sterilisation and sex reassignment surgery in order to change gender was unconstitutional. | A psychiatric or psychological evaluation and diagnosis is required. |
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| Status | Legal, no restrictions |
| Start Date | Jan 10, 2013 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | The Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal ruled that requiring sterilisation and sex reassignment surgery in order to change gender was unconstitutional. |
| Sources | https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sweden-ends-forced-sterilization-trans110113/ |