Right to change legal gender: Legal, surgery not required from Sep 1, 2020 to now.
Since September 1, 2020, Transgender individuals will just need “appropriate clinical treatment” to change sex on a birth certificate - under recently passed and signed laws by both the Virginia General Assembly and the Governor of Virginia cutting red tape.
Right to change legal gender: Legal, surgery not required from Jun 4, 2015 to now.
In response to two rulings of the Constitutional Court in 2015, the Colombian Government issued a decree on 4 June 2015 to simplify the process by which adults over 18 can legally change their gender. The decree, signed by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior, says the gender change is justified by a person's individual choice; it eliminates the requirement for psychiatric or physical examinations.
Blood donations by MSMs: Legal from Sep 2022 to now.
A 1-year deferral was implemented following the publication of standardized donor history questionnaire in December 2019. Previously, there was an indefinite ban on donations. In December 2019 this was changed to a 4-month deferral period for blood donors.
Since September 2022, the ban was lifted completely.
In January 2018, the Federal Psychology Council established norms of performance for psychologists in relation to transsexual and transvestite people, also banning any conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy: Not banned from Sep 2017 to Dec 2017.
In September 2017, a federal judge in Brasília approved the use of conversion therapy by a psychologist to “cure” people of homosexuality, overruling the 1999 decision.
LGBT employment discrimination: Sexual orientation and gender identity from Jun 30, 2022 to now.
Spanish law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, and "any other personal or social condition or circumstance.” in employment and provision of goods and services. A comprehensive anti-discrimination bill, called the Zerolo Law, was passed by the Cortes Generales on 30 June 2022.
Blood donations by MSMs: Banned (5-year deferral) from May 2018 to now.
In March 2018, the Government gazetted, for a two-month public consultation, amendments to the Standards on Assessing Donor Suitability for Blood Donation that included allowing gay and bisexual men who have not had sex with another man for five years to donate blood. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Welfare said that the abstinence period would be further reduced to one year in the future, so as to bring the Taiwanese standard in line with Western countries.
Right to change legal gender: Ambiguous from Sep 23, 2021 to Sep 24, 2021.
The decision was the result of a lawsuit filed by Xiao E, who was denied the right to change her gender on her national ID card.
Under the archaic legislation, transgender people were required to surgically remove their reproductive organs in order to legally change their gender.
The Taipei High Administrative Court ruled the requirement was unconstitutional on Thursday (23 September).
They also cited that the plaintiff had provided the necessary requirements to undergo the process of legally changing her name without being subjected to surgery.
Unfortunately, this ruling will only effect Xiao E. Other trans individuals looking to legally change their gender – without “proof of surgery” – will have to wait for the regulations to be revised or pursue legal action.
Right to change legal gender: Legal, surgery not required from Aug 1, 2016 to now.
On 25 November 2015, a law was proposed that would allow transgender people to change their legal name and sex. On 19 May 2016, the Chamber of Deputies passed the Gender Identity Law (Spanish: Ley de Identidad de Género). One day later, the Chamber of Senators passed the measure by simple majority votes. On 21 May 2016, the legislation was signed into law by Vice President Álvaro García Linera, and it took effect on 1 August 2016. In October 2016, the Bolivian Congress debated whether to repeal it.
The law allows individuals over 18 to legally change their name, sex and photography on legal documents. A psychological test proving that the person knows and voluntarily assumes the change of identity is required, but sex reassignment surgery is not. The process is confidential and must be carried out before the Civil Registry Service. The processing of the new documentation will take 15 days. The change of name and sex will be reversible once, after which they cannot modify these data again.
Same-sex marriage: Unrecognized from Aug 21, 2022 to now.
At the same time as Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the clause in the penal code known as Section 377A would be repealed, he reiterated that the institution of marriage would remain "between a man and a woman".
Further restrictions were imposed on gay marriage in Singapore on Nov 29th the same year.
Same-sex marriage: Not legal from Aug 2, 2022 to now.
Although the Ukraine Constitution defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
The country’s president Zelensky stated that Ukraine’s government may allow civil partnerships for same-sex couples in the future.
Law no. 273/2004 on the procedure of adoption in Romania does not stipulate as a condition of the adopter to be heterosexual, and refusal due to the sexual orientation of the adopter is deemed to infringe human rights.
Romania does not have access to the joint adoption and adoption by the second parent.
Access to means of assisted insemination is legal.