Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019
The third edition of ILGA World’s Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More Legal Mapping Report, released in September 2020, details the impact of laws and policies on trans persons in 143 UN member States across the globe.
The publication researches provisions which set out how trans and gender-diverse people can change their sexrefers to the classification of a person as male, female, or other - usually made at birth, written on a birth certificate, and usually based on the appearance of their external anatomy. A person’s sex, however, is actually a combination of bodily characteristics, including chromosomes, hormones, internal and external reproductive organs, and secondary sex characteristics. More/gender marker and names on official identity documents (legal gender recognitionlaws, administrative procedures or processes by which a person can change their sex/gender marker and names on official identity documents. More), and also collects information on laws criminalising trans identities, both explicitly and de facto – looking at the situation for our communities in every region of the world.
Download ILGA World’s latest Trans Legal Mapping Report in English – in Spanish
The third edition of the Trans Legal Mapping Report was researched and written by Zhan Chiam, Sandra Duffy, Matilda González Gil, Lara Goodwin, and Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel. it was coordinated by Zhan Chiam and published by ILGA World.
It is available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Suggested citation: ILGA World: Zhan Chiam, Sandra Duffy, Matilda González Gil, Lara Goodwin, and Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel, Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law (Geneva: ILGA World, 2020).
