Current Version
| Region | Kuwait |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | past |
| End Date | now |
| Description | Trans people are not allowed to change their legal gender. |
| Sources | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://database.ilga.org/kuwait-lgbti |
Revision History (8)
Revision by Notdog1996. Wrong status, description irrelevant
| Old Value | New Value (Current) | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | N/A | Illegal |
| Start Date | 2022 | (NONE) |
| Description | There are no laws criminalizing transgender people, but they are still not allowed to change their legal gender. | Trans people are not allowed to change their legal gender. |
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| Sources | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html https://database.ilga.org/kuwait-lgbti |
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Revision by Samanthos. description adjusted
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Description | No law criminalizing transgenders, but Transgender people are still not legally allowed to change legal gender. | There are no laws criminalizing transgender people, but they are still not allowed to change their legal gender. |
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Reports (1)
- Newer law has been passed
Revision by LGBT_southeastasian
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Start Date | 2021 | 2022 |
Revision by LGBT_southeastasian
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | N/A |
Revision by omalpau
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Start Date | (NONE) | 2021 |
Revision by omalpau
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | (REMOVED) |
Revision by LGBT_southeastasian
| Old Value | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | (REMOVED) | Ambiguous |
| Description | People in Kuwaiti cannot legally change their gender. | No law criminalizing transgenders, but Transgender people are still not legally allowed to change legal gender. |
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| Sources | the kuwaits hospitals | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-overturns-transgender-law.amp.html |
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Revision by danlev
| Old Value (Original) | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Description | kuwaiti people can not transgender | People in Kuwaiti cannot legally change their gender. |
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Reports (4)
- Status is not correct
- Other "If there is human rights in Kuwait just let the people be themselves committing suicide because they can’t tell anyone that they are homosexuals how can people live like this arresting them and thinking that they will suddenly change no! It will let them think that they can’t be who they are and then they start questioning themselves until they are tired of being alive "
- Status is not correct "Changing gender illegal "
- Status is not correct "With medical proof of the eligibility of the need to change , it could be done legally "