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| Region | Seychelles |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | The law and practices do not allow for persons to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity. The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming was not available. However, in 2003, a trans woman achieved legal recognition as a woman after sex reassignment surgery. |
| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/seychelles https://seylii.org/akn/sc/judgment/scca/2017/23/eng@2017-08-10/source.pdf |
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| Description | The law and practices do not allow for persons to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity. The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming was not available. | The law and practices do not allow for persons to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity. The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming was not available. However, in 2003, a trans woman achieved legal recognition as a woman after sex reassignment surgery. |
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| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/seychelles | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/seychelles https://seylii.org/akn/sc/judgment/scca/2017/23/eng@2017-08-10/source.pdf |
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Illegal |
| Description | one of the few countries that changes document to the persons gender. | The law and practices do not allow for persons to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity. The option to identify as nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming was not available. |
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| Sources | https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/seychelles | |
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| Status | Legal, no restrictions |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | one of the few countries that changes document to the persons gender. |
| Sources | (empty) |
Reports (1)
- Status is not correct "http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/13209/Seychellois+files+case+at+UN+Human+Rights+Commission+in+gender+identity+case"