Brazil: Landmark ruling as top court recognizes gender-neutral usage in identification documents
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 12:35 PM

In a first for the country, Brazil’s high court has allowed someone to identify as gender-neutral on official documents. In May, the Superior Court of Justice allowed a petitioner to use a gender-neutral identity on their birth certificate. The person had originally requested to be described as male after hormone treatment but later appealed to the court to use non-binary identification. The Court’s panel was unanimous in its decision.

Compiled from: "Brazilian court allows gender neutral designation in documents for the first time," AP News, May 7, 2025.