The Danish Central Personal Register (CPR) allows citizens under 18 to change their gender entry.
Until now, the CPR Act reads that a person must be 18 to apply for a new social security number which also indicates his or her gender, Kristeligt Dagblad writes. Whoever wants to have a legal gender change, therefore, must get a new CPR number that matches his or her gender. However, international guidelines oblige Denmark to give minors who, for example, underwent surgical gender reassignment access to a new legal gender as well. That is what the CPR says.
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Sophie Løhde, the Danish Minister of Interior and Health, has promised that she will investigate whether the law should be changed to accommodate this obligation. Løhde says to regret that she did not know about this international obligation.
Cases
According to Danish media, 16 minors had their application for legal gender change rejected between September 2014 and July 2023. The Minister promises that these cases will be reconsidered.
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In 2020, the Social Democratic government already proposed to remove the age limit for legal gender change, Kristeligt Dagblad writes. However, at the time, the Ethics Council did not agree.
Nevertheless, the government made a draft proposal that was to be tabled in October 2022. However, it would never be able to, as the general elections took place.
