Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP)
TRIP provides insight into the legal situation transgender people faced in 174 countries from 2000 to 2024. The dataset currently includes 14 indicators concerning criminalization, legal gender recognition, and anti-discrimination protections.
Version 2 now available for download here.
Indicators
Criminalization (National or Subnational)
Direct Criminalization:
Do laws criminalize transgender people on the basis of gender identity or expression?
Indirect Criminalization:
Are transgender people indirectly criminalized through laws and offenses that do not specifically pertain to gender identity or expression?
Legal Gender Recognition (National)
Gender Marker Change:
Do national laws/policies allow individuals to change gender markers on legal identity documents?
Prohibitive Requirements:
Are there any prohibitive requirements for changing gender markers on legal documents?
Physiological Requirement: Are there physiological requirements for a legal gender marker change? This may include but is not limited to hormone replacement therapy, surgery, sterilization, and/or any other physical intervention.
Psychological Requirement: Are there psychological requirements for a legal gender marker change? This may include any psychological intervention, such as a diagnosis by a psychiatrist or psychologist.
Divorce/Single-Status Requirement: Is there a divorce or single-status requirement for a legal gender marker change?
Nonbinary/Third Gender Recognition
Are nonbinary or third gender options available for legal gender marker change? This includes any option that is available beyond the traditionally designated binary options of “male” or “female.”
Anti-Discrimination Protections (National)
General Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Are there any general (non-sector specific) national anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect gender identity, gender expression, and/or "gender reassignment"?
Constitutional Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Does the constitution explicitly protect an individual on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, and/or "gender reassignment"?
Employment Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Are there any employment-specific national anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect gender identity, gender expression, and/or "gender reassignment"?
Education Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Are there any education-specific national anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect gender identity, gender expression, and/or gender reassignment?
Healthcare Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Are there any healthcare-specific national anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect gender identity, gender expression, and/or "gender reassignment"?
Housing Anti-Discrimination Protections:
Are there any housing-specific national anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect gender identity, gender expression, and/or "gender reassignment"?
As of 2021...
12
Countries with direct criminalization of transgender individuals based on gender identity and/or expression.
60
Countries with a national law allowing gender marker changes on legal documents.
39
Countries with at least one type of national anti-discrimination policy explicitly protecting gender identity and/or expression.
TRIP Data in the Media
