Kazakhstan

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Restricted: Public Health Code Art. 156 sets the right to change sex from age 21, capable persons with gender-identity disorders, excluding mental/behavioural disorders.

Adilet — Code on Public Health and Healthcare System (Art. 156)

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2020: Restricted: Public Health Code Art. 156 sets the right to change sex from age 21, capable persons with gender-identity disorders, excluding mental/behavioural disorders.

Adilet — Code on Public Health and Healthcare System (Art. 156)

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Adilet — Code on Public Health and Healthcare System (Art. 156)

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Kazakhstan’s health code sets an age-21 door.

The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Public Health and the Healthcare System of 7 July 2020 No. 360-VI (Adilet English) Article 156. Sex change:

Persons with gender identity disorders who have reached the age of twenty-one, are capable, except for persons with mental, behavioral disorders (diseases), have the right to change their sex.
The procedure for medical examination and sex reassignment is determined by the authorized body.

That is a statutory age floor on the official sex-change pathway.

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