Gender Identity Law (Chile)

Not to be confused with Gender Identity Law (Argentina).

Law No. 21,120, also now as Gender Identity Law (Spanish: Ley de identidad de género), is a Chilean law published in the Diario Oficial on December 10, 2018. The objective of this law is to allow the change of name and registered sex of a person, when said record does not correspond or is not consistent with their gender identity.

It was signed into law by President Sebastián Piñera on November 28, 2018, and published in the Diario Oficial on December 10 of the same year. The bill was a parliamentary initiative introduced on May 7, 2013, by Senators Lily Pérez, Ximena Rincón, Camilo Escalona, Ricardo Lagos Weber, and Juan Pablo Letelier.

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