Entry #4671: Right to change legal gender in Afghanistan

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Region	Afghanistan
Issue	Right to change legal gender
Status	Illegal
Start Date	(unknown)
End Date	(none)
Description	Transgender individuals are unable to change their legal gender.
Sources	https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/afghanistan/

Revision History (22)

Jun 15, 2025

edited by UnknownMiles. Rewriting description and replacing links

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	Old Value	New Value (Current)
Description	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban.	Transgender individuals are unable to change their legal gender.
Description	Show Difference No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban. Transgender individuals are unable to change their legal gender.
Sources	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/	https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/afghanistan/
Sources	Show Difference https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/afghanistan/

Jun 25, 2024

edited by cosmeticplague. Reverting to revision #39387:

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	N/A	Illegal
Description	Unknow, no law applied	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban.
Description	Show Difference Unknow, no law applied No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban.
Sources	https://database.ilga.org/afghanistan-lgbti	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/
Sources	Show Difference https://database.ilga.org/afghanistan-lgbti https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/

Jun 25, 2024

edited by allyderoche. N/A, no information.

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Illegal	N/A
Description	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban.	Unknow, no law applied
Description	Show Difference No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban. Unknow, no law applied
Sources	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/	https://database.ilga.org/afghanistan-lgbti
Sources	Show Difference https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ https://database.ilga.org/afghanistan-lgbti

May 12, 2022

edited by tsusamu

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	Old Value	New Value

Reports (1)
Newer law has been passed "afghanistan has improved quite alot"
Feb 23, 2023

Mar 4, 2022

edited by LGBT_southeastasian

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing might be illegal under the Taliban.	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing is illegal under the Taliban.
Description	Show Difference No Legal identity change. Crossdressing might be illegal under the Taliban. is illegal under the Taliban.

Nov 10, 2021

edited by Muhammadaji2022

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	Ambiguous	Illegal
Description	Not preformed. No laws in place to do so.	No Legal identity change. Crossdressing might be illegal under the Taliban.
Description	Show Difference Not preformed. No laws in place to do so. Legal identity change. Crossdressing might be illegal under the Taliban.

Aug 21, 2021

edited by beeurd

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	Old Value	New Value
Sources	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/
Sources	Show Difference https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/

Jul 18, 2021

edited by danlev

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	Old Value	New Value
Sources	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland
Sources	Show Difference https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland

Sep 14, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Unknown.	Not preformed. No laws in place to do so.

Reports (1)
Sources are invalid or broken "Second source is for incorrect country."
Jul 7, 2019

Aug 27, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, no restrictions	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Legal, no restrictions	Ambiguous
Description	Not criminalized but is not preformed in the country.	Unknown.

Jul 4, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	Legal, no restrictions
Description	Impossible to do because of intense tribal customs.	Not criminalized but is not preformed in the country.

Jun 23, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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

Jun 22, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Description	Unknown.	Impossible to do because of intense tribal customs.

Apr 23, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Illegal	Ambiguous
Description	No	Unknown.

Apr 10, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	Ambiguous	Illegal
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/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland
Sources	Show Difference 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/ http://www.lgbtnet.dk/countries/africa/swaziland

Mar 18, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Illegal	Ambiguous
Description	Not preformed.	No
Sources	No	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/gender-identity-map-where-you-can-change-your-gender-on-legal-documents/

Mar 5, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Start Date	Jan 1, 1987	(unknown)

Mar 2, 2018

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	(REMOVED)	Illegal
Special Status	Ambiguous	Illegal
Description	Not clear.	Not preformed.

Dec 9, 2017

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Illegal	(REMOVED)
Special Status	Illegal	Ambiguous
Description	No	Not clear.

Feb 26, 2017

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value	New Value
Value	Legal, but requires surgery	Illegal
Description	Been legal since then	No
Sources	listverse.com	No

Oct 17, 2016

edited by Ausyk

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	Old Value (Original)	New Value
Value	Illegal	Legal, but requires surgery
Start Date	(unknown)	Jan 1, 1987
Description	Women are not regarded heavily there.	Been legal since then
Sources	No	listverse.com

Aug 12, 2016

created by Ausyk

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	Original entry
Status	Illegal
Start Date	(unknown)
End Date	(none)
Description	Women are not regarded heavily there.
Sources	No