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| Region | (deleted region) |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | Changing gender is illegal in Saudi Arabia. |
| Sources | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2018/04/16/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-country-profiles#saudi_arabia |
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| Sources | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2018/04/16/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-country-profiles#saudi_arabia |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Illegal |
| Description | LGBT people are unknown. Not criminalized and the country allowed transgender people to come to the country. | Changing gender is illegal in Saudi Arabia. |
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Illegal | Ambiguous |
| Description | LGBT people are unknown. Not criminalized and the country allowed transgender people to come to the country. | LGBT people are unknown. Not criminalized and the country allowed transgender people to come to the country. |
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Illegal | Ambiguous |
| Description | LGBT people are unknown | LGBT people are unknown. Not criminalized and the country allowed transgender people to come to the country. |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Illegal |
| Special Status | Ambiguous | Illegal |
| Sources | No | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ |
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| Value | Illegal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Illegal | Ambiguous |
| Description | No | LGBT people are unknown |
Reports (13)
- Status is not correct "Changing gender in Saudi Arabia is not legal. Crossdressing is punished."
- Status is not correct "Changing gender and sex is not legal for transgender even after the surgery
Only intersexual people are allowed to correct their gender after surgery "
- Status is not correct
- Status is not correct
- Status is not correct "While there are no official laws against transgender people on the books in Saudi, men have faced legal charges for dressing as women.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-conference-saudi-lgbt-idUSKBN13Q5VO"
- Other "Being a transgender in Saudi Arabia leads to execution."
- Other "Transgender is an executable offence in Saudi Arabia"
- Status is not correct "No law specifically criminalizes it,
HOWEVER
Saudi Arabia has completely banned transgender persons from entering the country, and many transgender people have been imprisioned and flogged by the order of courts.
To say that Trangender rights are "legal" is comepletely wrong."
- Status is not correct
- Status is not correct "Changing gender has same punishments as homosexuality"
- Status is not correct
- Status is not correct "Change of gender with a legally or through surgery is only allowed for those that are intersex. Cross dressing is illegal."
- Status is not correct "with permission from an Iman change of gender is allowed"