Entry #2564: Right to change legal gender in Azerbaijan

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Region	Azerbaijan
Issue	Right to change legal gender
Status	Legal, but requires surgery
Start Date	Apr 5, 1972
End Date	Oct 18, 1991
Description	The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed
Sources	https://bigpicture.ru/ya-peredumala-istoriya-pervoj-operacii-po-smene-pola/

Revision History (19)

Feb 26, 2025

edited by jadeywadey. added an end date

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	Old Value	New Value (Current)
End Date	(none)	Oct 18, 1991
Description	the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed	The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed
Description	Show Difference the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed

Aug 5, 2023

edited by JuliaB. it's possible to change legal gender in azerbaijan after sex reassignment surgery

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	Legal, but requires surgery
Start Date	(unknown)	Apr 5, 1972
Description	Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender.	the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed
Description	Show Difference Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender. the Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed
Sources	https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf	https://bigpicture.ru/ya-peredumala-istoriya-pervoj-operacii-po-smene-pola/
Sources	Show Difference https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf https://bigpicture.ru/ya-peredumala-istoriya-pervoj-operacii-po-smene-pola/

Reports (2)
Status is not correct "More outdated as while this was true during the Soviet Union, unfortunately Azerbaijan has no means to legal gender recognition and trans people are often subject to harassment.
https://outrightinternational.org/our-work/europe-and-central-asia/azerbaijan"
Feb 23, 2025
Status is not correct "Availability of Legal Gender Recognition: The government does not permit individuals to change gender identity markers on legal and identifying documents to align them with their gender identity.
Source: 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 20, 2023
US
Only name change is allowed according to wikipedia"
Dec 26, 2023

Nov 12, 2022

edited by Pizzaslices412653

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	Ambiguous	Illegal
Sources	https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trans-mapA_Map2016july.pdf	https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf
Sources	Show Difference https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trans-mapA_Map2016july.pdf https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source/LGBT/AzerbaijanLegal_E.pdf

Apr 12, 2022

edited by maddyksf

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Illegal	Ambiguous

Reports (1)
Newer law has been passed "Transgender people are allowed to change their gender according to sex assignment surgery"
Oct 5, 2022

Feb 12, 2022

edited by bubblyara

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	Ambiguous	Illegal

Nov 19, 2021

edited by Muhammadaji2022

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, no restrictions	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Legal, no restrictions	Ambiguous
Description	Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents.	Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender.
Description	Show Difference Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents. Transgender people can change their name but not their legal gender.

Jul 19, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Surgery is allowed but not required.	Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents.
Description	Show Difference Surgery is allowed but not required. Missing non binary options on documents.

Apr 18, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, but requires surgery	Legal, no restrictions
Description	Requires sterilization.	Surgery is allowed but not required.

Apr 11, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Requires sterilization	Requires sterilization.

Mar 23, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, no restrictions	Legal, but requires surgery
Description	Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options.	Requires sterilization
Description	Show Difference Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options. Requires sterilization
Sources	No	https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trans-mapA_Map2016july.pdf

Mar 11, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, but requires surgery	Legal, no restrictions
Description	Requires surgery and sterilization.	Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options.
Description	Show Difference Requires surgery and sterilization. Not able to change gender on documents and missing non binary options.

Feb 26, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Requires surgery.	Requires surgery and sterilization.

Feb 22, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Requires sterilization.	Requires surgery.

Feb 16, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, no restrictions	Legal, but requires surgery
Description	No	Requires sterilization.

Feb 7, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Requires Sterilization. ruled sterilization not legal by eu.	No

Dec 13, 2017

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Requires Sterilization	Requires Sterilization. ruled sterilization not legal by eu.

Reports (1)
Other "Controversy between the status and note field."
Dec 23, 2017

Aug 25, 2017

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	No	Requires Sterilization
Sources	transrespect.org	No

Oct 16, 2016

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value (Original)	New Value
Sources	No	transrespect.org

Jul 27, 2016

created by Ausyk

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	Original entry
Status	Legal, no restrictions
Start Date	(unknown)
End Date	(none)
Description	No
Sources	No