zelfidentificatie.nl

About this site

Zelfidentificatie.nl is the Dutch legal dossier on self-identification: from Article 1:28 of the Civil Code and the 2014 Transgender Act to the withdrawn bill 35825, CEDAW, the ECtHR and the UK Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland (April 2025).

What you’ll find on zelfidentificatie.nl

• The dossier in six steps — starting from the legal provision itself
• The 2014 Transgender Act and the withdrawn bill 35825
• The UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the European Court of Human Rights
• For Women Scotland 2025 and its impact across Europe
• The idea of a gender certificate separate from sex
• Forty years of legal sex classification in the Netherlands

Target audience

For lawyers, politicians, journalists and students who want to understand the legal framework on sex registration in detail — with all the primary sources included.

Related within the network: conversiewet.nl on the conversion therapy bill, genderbeleid.nl on gender policy and transbeleid.nl for policy analysis.

Part of the gender network

zelfidentificatie.nl is one of more than forty specialist sites in the Dutch-language gender network of Stichting Genderinfo i.o. Every site in the network covers one subject in depth: from science and medical facts to care, legislation, the public debate and support for specific audiences. That way you always find the site that answers your question most sharply. Note: most network sites are in Dutch.

Explore further: browse the category broad overviews, science and medical context, care and policy, society and debate or community and audiences — or go to the full network overview and the external resources beyond the network.