This document was created for transgender persons, LGBT
community-based and other civil society organizations to be used in the
process of advocacy for legal gender recognition of trans persons.
The
purpose of the document is to evaluate the work of decision-making
institutions on legal gender recognition, including the Parliament of
Georgia, the Government, and the Ministry of Justice, and to develop
recommendations.
In the process of developing this document, we
reviewed laws and administrative regulations of Georgia and other
countries, important international and EU standards, studies involving
trans people and human rights policy documents.
This document is focused on legal gender recognition of binary trans persons – transgender women and transgender men. It does not include the perspectives of intersex, non-binary or gender non-conforming persons. Specifics of these groups are subject to further study.
LEGAL GENDER RECOGNITION IN GEORGIA - POLICY PAPER