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If the person involved is in a legally recognised marriage, they require spousal consent for the certificate to be issued, after which a new marriage certificate can be issued; [5] if the spouse does not consent, the person will be issued an Interim Gender Recognition Certificate, [6] which for a limited period can then be used as grounds for ...
In December 2023, the UK government said it would no longer accept gender recognition certificates issued by 50 countries and U.S. states, due to concerns those jurisdictions allowed people to transition "too easily". Individuals from these locations would have to apply for a new GRC according to British law to legally change their gender in ...
On 27 December 2007, the Supreme Court of Nepal issued a decision mandating that the government scrap all laws that discriminated based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and establish a committee to study same-sex marriage policy. [140] The court also established a third-gender category. [140]
There have been at least ten prosecutions since 2012 and all of the defendants were convicted, while some of the convictions were solely based on the non-disclosure of gender history per se. [133] Discussing the cis- and hetero-normativity which she argued existed in the UK judicial system, Sharpe said that despite the fact "in many of the ...
The Open Society Foundations published a report, License to Be Yourself in May 2014, documenting "some of the world's most progressive and rights-based laws and policies" enabling changes to gender markers on official documents. [47] The report comments on the recognition of third classifications, stating:
Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage. Marriage laws have historically evolved separately from marriage laws in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. There is a distinction between religious marriages, conducted by an ...
Chile bans all discrimination and hate crimes based on gender identity and gender expression. The Gender Identity Law, in effect since 2019, recognizes the right to self-perceived gender identity, allowing people over 14 years to change their name and gender on all official documents without prohibitive requirements. [227]
Laws that affect LGBT people include, but are not limited to, the following: laws concerning the recognition of same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; laws concerning same-sex parenting, including same-sex adoption; anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public ...