The Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan has clarified the government’s recent resolution that permits citizens to change their surname, first name, and patronymic following an official gender reassignment.
The new regulation allows changes to personal data if the gender initially recorded at birth was incorrect and later amended based on a medical certificate.
Previously, legislative gaps made it legally impossible to update names even when gender was officially corrected. For instance, a child born in 2008 was registered as male. At age 16, medical examinations confirmed the child was female. Despite this, the law did not permit changing the boy’s name and patronymic to female equivalents.
The Ministry explained that birth registration uses gender data provided in medical certificates. However, each year in Uzbekistan, 5–6 cases are registered where determining a child’s gender at birth is difficult and clarified later. Since 1 September 1998, gender correction in official records has been possible under Article 229 of the Family Code.
The adopted resolution removes legal barriers and now allows individuals in such cases to update not only their gender information but also related personal details—surname, first name, and patronymic—based on medical confirmation.
Earlier, Kursiv Uzbekistan reported that employers in Uzbekistan are now prohibited from dismissing women due to pregnancy or childbirth.
