Right to change legal gender: Legal, surgery not required from Dec 27, 2019 to now.
Change of name and gender legal since 2019 without surgery.
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Right to change legal gender: Legal, but requires surgery from Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 27, 2019.
Change of name and gender legal since 2007
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Right to change legal gender: Legal, surgery not required from Dec 27, 2019 to now.
Since 2019, the Law that Recognises and Protects the Right to Gender Identity (Law No. 21,120) allows transgender people over the age of 14 to legally change their name and gender on all official documents. For persons over 18 years of age, the change is requested by submitting a request to the Civil Registry and Identification Service. Article 4(c) of the law stipulates that it will not be a requirement to have undergone any type of intervention or appearance-modifying treatment.
In 1974, Marcia Alejandra Torres became the first person in Chile to legally change her name and gender on the birth certificate after undergo sex reassignment surgery.