Despite recent advances in transgender rights in European countries, some legal systems still have barriers such as obligatory diagnosis, sterilization, and medical interventions and incorporating societal acceptance and public order into their discourse. This study dealing with the regime of legal gender recognition in Turkey first reveals critical reciprocating historical developments in national legal regulations for affirming trans identities. Then, the recent conditions laid down by the 2017 Constitutional Court judgments stating that transgender people do not require permanent sterilization any more but require sex reassignment surgery for legal gender change are evaluated. Moreover, this paper explains that while the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights partly reflects the current Turkish legislation, it is not a big step for transgender rights. The findings also underline that the new Turkish regulations appear reformist but are indeed strong measures for legal consistency to solve the dilemma in the previous period in order to maintain the status quo.

尽管最近欧洲国家在跨性别权利方面取得了进展，但一些法律制度仍然存在障碍，例如强制性诊断、绝育和医疗干预，以及将社会接受和公共秩序纳入其话语。这项关于土耳其法律性别承认制度的研究首先揭示了国家法律法规在确认跨性别身份方面的重要往复历史发展。然后，评估了 2017 年宪法法院判决规定的最近条件，即跨性别者不再需要永久绝育，而是需要进行变性手术以进行合法的性别改变。此外，本文解释说，虽然欧洲人权法院的判例部分反映了土耳其现行立法，这不是跨性别权利的一大步。调查结果还强调，土耳其的新法规看似改革派，但确实是法律一致性的有力措施，以解决前期的困境，以维持现状。