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| Region | Iowa |
| Issue | Right to change legal gender |
| Status | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In order to change your legal gender in Iowa, you need to have a physician sign off that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment in your gender transition. Although surgery to change your gender is an option, it is not required. Also, it is not explicitly stated that you need to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria in order to change your gender. |
| Sources | https://trans-resources.org.uiowa.edu/sites/trans-resources.org.uiowa.edu/files/2020-04/iowa_guide_to_changing_legal_identity_documents_january_2019_0.pdf |
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edited by Unknownmiles. Legal, but requires medical diagnosis is more accurate because you need a physician sign off that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
edited by Unknownmiles. Updating description and changing status to no restrictions since you don’t need to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria and literally ever country requires some type of professional sign off so Iowa requiring this does not mean they require a medical diagnosis
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| Value | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis | Legal, no restrictions |
| Description | In order to change your legal gender in Iowa, you need to have a physician sign off that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment in your gender transition. Although surgery to change your gender is an option, it is not required. | In order to change your legal gender in Iowa, you need to have a physician sign off that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment in your gender transition. Although surgery to change your gender is an option, it is not required. Also, it is not explicitly stated that you need to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria in order to change your gender. |
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edited by Samuel_NOT_Samuele. added
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| Value | Legal, no restrictions | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
edited by Unknownmiles. I’m actually gonna put this as no restrictions because a medical diagnosis would mean you need to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria
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| Value | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis | Legal, no restrictions |
edited by Unknownmiles. Changing the status
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| Value | Legal, but requires surgery | Legal, but requires medical diagnosis |
| Description | Requires surgery to change all documents. Missing non binary options on documents. | In order to change your legal gender in Iowa, you need to have a physician sign off that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment in your gender transition. Although surgery to change your gender is an option, it is not required. |
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| Sources | http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/identity_document_laws | https://trans-resources.org.uiowa.edu/sites/trans-resources.org.uiowa.edu/files/2020-04/iowa_guide_to_changing_legal_identity_documents_january_2019_0.pdf |
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| Description | Requires surgery to change drivers licenses. Missing non binary options on documents. | Requires surgery to change all documents. Missing non binary options on documents. |
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Reports (4)
- Status is not correct "Changing gender does not require surgery. I live in Iowa, had my gender changed in 2022, and am still pre-op"
- Note field is incorrect "You are able to change legal sex as long as you have transitioned and are taking hormones, surgery isn’t required"
- Status is not correct "no surgery required"
- Status is not correct "Gender marker change only requires completion of surgical or other treatments that permanently change sex. https://law.uiowa.edu/sites/law.uiowa.edu/files/iowa_guide_to_changing_legal_identity_documents_january_2019.pdf
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| Description | To change all documents. Missing non binary options on documents. | Requires surgery to change drivers licenses. Missing non binary options on documents. |
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| Description | To change all documents. | To change all documents. Missing non binary options on documents. |
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| Description | To change all documents. changes pending. | To change all documents. |
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| Description | To change all documents. | To change all documents. changes pending. |