- In the second half of 2022, 749 same-sex couples got married in Switzerland.
- 2234 couples had their registered partnership converted into a marriage.
- In the first year, a total of 1,171 gender changes were also registered at the Swiss civil registry offices.
Marriage for all from July 1, 2022
Since July 2022, same-sex couples in Switzerland have been able to get married or convert their registered partnership into a marriage. Of the 749 registered lesbian and gay marriages, 53 percent were male couples and 47 percent were female couples.
Two thirds of these marriages were contracted in the greater Zurich region, in the Lake Geneva region and in the Espace Mittelland. This is shown by the first, based on the civil status register Provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) for the year 2022.
Between July 1st and December 31st, 2022, 2234 applications for the conversion of a registered partnership into a marriage were also made. 60 percent (1337) came from male couples.
30 percent of the conversions were applied for in the greater Zurich region alone, with significantly more applications being made by male couples. The registered partnership has always been more popular with men than with women since it came into force in 2007, the FSO continues.
Often from «male» to «female»
According to the BFS, a total of 1,171 gender changes were registered at the Swiss civil registry offices last year. 53 percent of the entries in the civil status register were changed from “male” to “female” and 47 percent from “female” to “male”.
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Marriage for All went into effect on July 1, 2022. Simplified gender changes have been possible since early 2022.
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In 2022, most requests for a gender change came from 15-24 year olds, at 53 percent (622). This is followed by the 25 to 29 year olds and the 30 to 34 year olds with 196 and 96 applications respectively, according to the BFS.
39 people who had their gender changed in the civil status register were younger than 15 and no one was older than 79. According to the FSO, more people under the age of 15 and between the ages of 15 and 19 changed their gender entry from “male” to “female” than vice versa. In all other age groups, more entries were changed from «female» to «male».
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According to the binary gender order enshrined in Swiss law, the choice is limited to the categories “male” and “female”.
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Most sex changes were recorded in the Lake Geneva region, in the Espace Mittelland and in the greater Zurich region. In the Lake Geneva region, in eastern Switzerland and in Ticino, the same number of people changed their gender entry to “male” and to “female”. In the greater Zurich region, in the Espace Mittelland, in northwestern Switzerland and in central Switzerland, there were more people who changed the entry from “male” to “female”, as the FSO writes.