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| Region | Nepal |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, no restrictions |
| Start Date | Jul 31, 2024 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In 2024, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled that a transgender woman is a woman and said she should be legally recognised as such in all documents without the need for medical documentation. Previously legal gender recognition was only provided to nonbinary people, but the ruling has effectively made it inclusive to trans men and women as well. |
| Sources | https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/nepal-supreme-court-rules-trans-woman-woman |
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- Note field is incorrect "Due to the absence of statuatory and procedural laws for changing one's name and gender marker once a identification document has been obtained, changing one's legal gender to a binary marker requires a writ from a higher court.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/02/15/we-have-beg-so-many-people/human-rights-violations-nepals-legal-gender"
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| Status | Legal, no restrictions |
| Start Date | Jul 31, 2024 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In 2024, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled that a transgender woman is a woman and said she should be legally recognised as such in all documents without the need for medical documentation. Previously legal gender recognition was only provided to nonbinary people, but the ruling has effectively made it inclusive to trans men and women as well. |
| Sources | https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/nepal-supreme-court-rules-trans-woman-woman |