Swiss Civil Code

¹ Any per­son who is firmly con­vinced that they are not of the gender entered in their re­spect in the civil re­gister may de­clare to the civil re­gis­trar that they wish to have the entry changed.

² The per­son mak­ing the de­clar­a­tion may have one or more new first names entered in the civil re­gister.

³ The de­clar­a­tion has no leg­al ef­fect on fam­ily re­la­tion­ships.

⁴ The con­sent of the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive is re­quired if:

1.

the per­son mak­ing the de­clar­a­tion is un­der the age of 16;

2.

the per­son mak­ing the de­clar­a­tion is sub­ject to a gen­er­al deputy­ship; or

3.

the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity has so ordered.