Current Version
| Region | Poland |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Start Date | Nov 17, 1964 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | A medical diagnosis required, and individuals need to sue their parents in order to have their birth certificate changed. Under Polish law reassignment surgery can only take place after a person's gender has been legally changed. |
| Sources | http://doradztwopab.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/zmiana-plci-w-polskim-prawie/ https://rainbow-europe.org/#8653/0/0 |
Reports (3)
- Status is not correct "reassignment surgery cannot legally take place before changing legal gender"
- Status is not correct "Surgery is not needed to legally change gender, however, legally changing gender is required for most gender conforming surgeries, this was not reflected in law in any way, it has been this way for years"
- Status is not correct "According to tranzycja.pl (Polish compendium of information about transition) no surgeries are needed for legal gender change. There is no legal document that specifies medical requirements for changing legal gender.
https://tranzycja.pl/krok-po-kroku/zmiana-danych-sad/ (in Polish)
https://tranzycja.pl/en/publications/how-to-start-medical-transition-in-poland/#questions-and-answers (English)"
Revision History (2)
Revision by JohnQuebec98. The description and other sources are enough for a status change unfortunately
| Old Value | New Value (Current) | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Legal, surgery not required | Legal, but requires surgery |
| Sources | http://doradztwopab.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/zmiana-plci-w-polskim-prawie/ | http://doradztwopab.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/zmiana-plci-w-polskim-prawie/ https://rainbow-europe.org/#8653/0/0 |
Revision by beeurd
| Old Value (Original) | New Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Legal, but requires surgery | Legal, surgery not required |
| Note | A medical diagnosis required, and individuals need to sue their parents in order to have their birth certificate changed. Under Polish law reassignment surgery can only take place after a person's gender has been legally changed. |
Reports (15)
- Status is not correct "According to Wikipedia changing legal gender doesn't require surgeries"
- Status is not correct
- Status is not correct "Legal gender change requires psychological evaluation and sometimes undergoing minimum amount of hormone therapy, depending on court deciding your case.
Surgery is definitely NOT required for a legal change, and it's actually exactly the opposite - you have to change your legal gender to undergo SRS."
- Status is not correct "It's legal, but it doesn't require surgery, only HRT. "Legal, no surgery required" is more accurate"
- Other "Provided source claims the opposite: "A court decision is the basis for getting SRS.""
- Status is not correct "Requires medical intervention, not necessarily surgery, being on HRT for long enough suffices. "
- Status is not correct "bill from 2015 failed, there is no law describing procedure - formally medical transition is not required since the procedure doesnt exist - transgender people from poland use legal loophole consisting suing their own parents for claiming falsehood in birth certificate."
- Status is not correct "there's no need of surgery, but without legal gender change u cant udergoo srs. You also need to sue your own parents and win the court trial"
- Status is not correct "No surgery is required, but expert opinion from a specialist is necessary for the court to allow one to update their documents.
Also, requiring surgery would mean that sterilization is necessary, this would a requirement explicitly banned in Polish law."
- Status is not correct "Legal
Legal process is prerequisite for (possible) later surgery"
- Status is not correct "Does not require surgery"
- Status is not correct "Not necessarily"
- Status is not correct "Yes and no. It does not require surgery if the characteristics are dominant."
- Status is not correct "You need to sue your parents over wrong sex marker assignment, so there is no way specified in law."
- Status is not correct