Trans Legal Mapping Report

The Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More Legal Mapping Report is a research project by ILGA World, detailing the impact of laws and policies on trans persons across the globe. Its latest edition, released in September 2020, covers the legal situation in 143 UN member States: it highlights 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), but 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.

All too often, processes for genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More marker and name change include requirements that are blatant human rights violations: this report outlines them clearly, but also shows progressive examples from across the world.

Compiling information both through desk-based research and the lived realities of trans activists across the world, the ILGA World Trans Legal Mapping Report is a fundamental tool that advocates can use to engage with their national governments and bring about change.