Current Version
Region | Denmark |
Issue | Right to change legal gender |
Status | Legal, surgery not required |
Start Date | Sep 5, 2014 |
End Date | now |
Description | Denmark's historic new law allows citizens to self-determine their own gender identity without any requirements for medical or psychiatric intervention. |
Sources | http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law |
Reports (1)
- Other "The law does not allow for gender it allows for sex change like we have male female not they them it"
Revision History (1)
Revision by vviet93
Old Value (Original) | New Value (Current) | |
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Value | Legal, but requires surgery | Legal, surgery not required |
Start Date | 0000-01-01 | 2014-09-05 |
Note | By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman\'s name, or vice versa. I am transgendered and had surgery over a decade ago in Denmark, and my legal status was changed even before I was out of the hospital. This has been the case for Denmark since sex changes became an option. | Denmark's historic new law allows citizens to self-determine their own gender identity without any requirements for medical or psychiatric intervention. |
Sources | https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/R0710.aspx?id=141282 | http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/denmark_s_new_gender_recognition_law |