According to the National Board of Health and Welfare's guidance to healthcare, which Ekot has taken part of, it is often sufficient with a single digital healthcare visit to obtain the certificate required for a person's gender to be changed in the population register.
It is important to remember that this is a regulation that to a great extent is based on the individual's own self-determination and where the process should be simple, says Pär Ödman, chief legal officer at the National Board of Health and Welfare, to Ekot.
The National Board of Health and Welfare has also decided that four licensed professional categories will be able to issue certificates for those who want to change their legal gender: doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, and healthcare and social care coordinators. Then the applications will be processed by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
For those who apply, it will initially be about turning to healthcare to obtain a certificate. Then one applies to the National Board of Health and Welfare, which decides on the matter.
According to a parliamentary decision last year, it will no longer be required to have a gender dysphoria diagnosis to change one's legal gender in the population register, and the age limit is lowered from 18 to 16 years as long as one has the guardian's consent.
The new law comes into force on July 1.
