What rights don’t trans people have?

Katy Montgomerie
28 min readSep 3, 2020

A list of the rights that trans people are missing in order to be equal to cis people around the world.

This is a live document and is not exhaustive. If you know of a right missing in your country, or you have an article to back up one mentioned (even if it already has a source), please comment below or contact me on Twitter.

(Please note: So far I have only done Europe, Central Asia, the USA, and some of Africa. I haven’t even attempted to research most of the Americas, East Asia, South Asia, or most of Africa yet.)

Afghanistan

  • No legal right to exist at all (death penalty) [source]

Albania

  • No legal gender recognition at all [source]
  • No legal name change at all [source]
  • No legal protection against healthcare discrimination [source]
  • No legal protection against gender expression discrimination [source]
  • No ban on conversion therapy [source]
  • No legal parenthood recognition [source]
  • No legal right to serve in the military [source][source]

Algeria

Andorra

  • No legal gender recognition at all [source]
  • No legal name change at all [source]
  • No hate crime law [source]
  • No ban on conversion therapy [source]
  • No legal parenthood recognition [source]
  • No legal right to serve in the military [source][source]

Angola

  • No legal gender recognition at all (complicated, ambiguous) [source][source]
  • No legal right to serve in the military [source][source]
  • No practical access to trans healthcare [source]
  • No ban on conversion therapy [source]

Armenia

  • No legal gender recognition at all [source]
  • No hate crime law [source]
  • No legal protection against employment discrimination…
Katy Montgomerie

Katy is a feminist, LGBT rights advocate, atheist, metalhead, insect enthusiast and trans woman