{"chart":{"title":"Gender marker can be legally changed","subtitle":"Possibility of changing one's gender in official national documents.","citation":"Equaldex (2026)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/right-to-change-legal-gender-equaldex","selection":["Falkland Islands","South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands","Libya","Cayman Islands"]},"columns":{"Right to change legal gender (historical)":{"titleShort":"Right to change legal gender","titleLong":"Right to change legal gender","descriptionShort":"Legislation status of the right to change legal gender. This is the legal recognition of sex reassignment by permitting a change of legal gender on an individual's birth certificate.","descriptionProcessing":"- We have extracted the data from the official [Equaldex JSON API](https://equaldex.stoplight.io/docs/equaldex/d033e28a5cf0c-equaldex-json-api).\n- We combine the historical and current data extracted from the API to create a time series.\n- If Equaldex doesn't record when a status began, we only include it for the most recent year — we don't extend it backward.\n- We group some of the categories the source has defined for each issue, for further clarity in our visualizations.\n- We present this data only for sovereign states, defined by [Butcher and Griffiths (2020)](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sovereign-state-butcher-griffiths), using the definitions of the latest year available. Greenland is the one exception: we keep it as its own country row but exclude it from regional aggregates.","shortUnit":"","unit":"","timespan":"1950-2026","type":"Ordinal","owidVariableId":1229814,"shortName":"changing_gender","lastUpdated":"2026-05-14","nextUpdate":"2027-05-14","citationShort":"Equaldex (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Equaldex (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Right to change legal gender – Equaldex” [dataset]. Equaldex, “Equaldex” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1229814.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}