{"id": 1229663, "name": "Legal change of gender marker \u2014 Varies by region (number of countries)", "unit": "countries", "createdAt": "2026-05-20T15:35:39.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-05-20T15:35:39.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1991-2025", "datasetId": 7970, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "gender_marker_change_varies_by_region_count", "catalogPath": "grapher/lgbt_rights/2026-05-11/lgbti_national_policy_dataset/lgbti_national_policy_dataset_combined_regions#gender_marker_change_varies_by_region_count", "descriptionShort": "The number of countries classified as \"Varies by region\" on the indicator on legal change of gender marker.", "descriptionProcessing": "From the original dataset, we combined the gender-marker-change proportion (the legal direction) with the recorded legal-pathway requirement to produce a single categorical indicator. When legal change of the gender marker is fully in effect, we classify countries by their procedural requirement (\"Self-declaration is enough\", \"Diagnosis required\", \"Surgery required\", \"Surgery and sterilization required\", or \"Legally possible, requirement unknown\" when the requirement is not recorded). Otherwise the country is classified as \"Varies by region\" (legal change is only partially in effect across subnational jurisdictions) or \"Not legally possible\" (no legal procedure exists). We then counted the countries classified as \"Varies by region\" within each region. Regional aggregates are computed from country-level data using [Our World in Data's region definitions](https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions), the [World Bank's income group classification](https://ourworldindata.org/world-bank-income-groups-explained), and our [consolidated population data](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources). A country is counted as having full implementation when the policy proportion equals 1.", "type": "int", "datasetName": "LGBTI National Policy Dataset", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-05-11", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Varies by region", "unit": "countries", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "Velasco", "topicTagsLinks": ["LGBT+ Rights", "Human Rights"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data comes from the LGBTI National Policy Dataset, compiled by Kristopher Velasco at Princeton University. It tracks the adoption, scope, and enforcement of 27 LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries, with annual data starting in 1991."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": "OWID_AFR"}, {"id": 275, "name": "Asia", "code": "OWID_ASI"}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": "OWID_EUR"}, {"id": 457, "name": "High-income countries", "code": "OWID_HIC"}, {"id": 461, "name": "Low-income countries", "code": "OWID_LIC"}, {"id": 460, "name": "Lower-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_LMC"}, {"id": 294, "name": "North America", "code": "OWID_NAM"}, {"id": 277, "name": "Oceania", "code": "OWID_OCE"}, {"id": 295, "name": "South America", "code": "OWID_SAM"}, {"id": 459, "name": "Upper-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_UMC"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 15205, "title": "LGBTI National Policy Dataset", "description": "The LGBTI National Policy Dataset (Version 2.0) is a country-year-policy panel dataset tracking the adoption, scope, and enforcement of LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries from 1991 to 2025. The dataset is distributed in long format, where each row represents a single country in a single year for one specific policy-status combination. It is designed for use in comparative political research, policy diffusion analysis, and quantitative cross-national studies of LGBTI rights.\n\nThe dataset covers 27 distinct policy areas organized into 54 policy-status combinations (each policy paired with two mutually exclusive status directions). Of these 54 combinations, 36 contain substantive data; the remaining 18 are structural placeholders with all-zero values, included to maintain a fully balanced panel suitable for econometric methods.", "producer": "Velasco", "citationFull": "Velasco, Kristopher. 2026. \"LGBTI National Policy Dataset, Version 2.0.\" [Dataset].", "attributionShort": "Velasco", "versionProducer": "2.0", "urlMain": "https://osf.io/wta9p/overview", "dateAccessed": "2026-05-11", "datePublished": "2026-03-23", "license": {"url": "https://osf.io/wta9p/overview", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}