The mention of the gender will disappear from the belgian identity cards

 

In Belgium the constitutional Court stated in 2019: ,,A person can change their gender once without any medical reasons required and if they want to change it again they need to go to family court with exceptional circumstances."  (transgender law). This law got partly overtuned now.

 

Because the non-binary gender, neither woman nor man, can't register themself on their ID and people that identify themselves as genderfluid, couldn’t change more then once. So the federal government had to look for options to remedy this unconstitutionality

 

There was an idea to give people the third option (X) on their ID but the government has chosen to delete the gender option completely.

 

After the technically aspects are finished this will go through. There will still have to be looked after, if this will make it harder to travel and how new cards will be given.

 

Although this will be globally something big for Belgium and the LGBTQI+ community, it can have a few disadvantages. For example if there will be trouble in the investigation for discrimination between genders, in sports the class diffrences between genders and how everything will change is being looked at by the government. The gender will therefore still be registered somewhere.

 

So you can see Belgium is making proces together with other countries, who already have or will have an option for the non-binary gender; Denmark, Portugal, Iceland,

Austria, Malta, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, several US states, Argentina and The Netherlands will have a third option in 2024.

 

Zoë FIERS