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