At present Swedish law states that transgender people must go through a medical procedure before they can have their gender change legally recognized, but the government now wants to have the legal and medical aspects of changing gender separated. It has proposed two new laws: one on how gender is changed in legal terms, and another on the authorization of certain operations on sex organs and reproductive glands. The two laws would replace the current gender identity act. In practice it would mean a medical diagnosis is no longer necessary for a person to have their gender change recognized legally, and to receive a new personal identity number (personnummer) for example. The hope is that this will make the process of changing gender less stressful than it is now.

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