diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/XeGPU/Transforms/XeGPUWgToSgDistribute.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/XeGPU/Transforms/XeGPUWgToSgDistribute.cpp
index be82cda574f1e..d430cf7eb3dfc 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/XeGPU/Transforms/XeGPUWgToSgDistribute.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/XeGPU/Transforms/XeGPUWgToSgDistribute.cpp
@@ -1239,37 +1239,27 @@ struct WgToSgVectorTransposeOp
     if (!layout || !layout.isForWorkgroup())
       return failure();
 
-    xegpu::DistributeLayoutAttr sourceLayout =
-        xegpu::getDistributeLayoutAttr(op.getVector());
-    if (!sourceLayout || !sourceLayout.isForWorkgroup())
-      return failure();
-
-    SmallVector<int64_t> sourceSgLayout =
-        sourceLayout.getEffectiveSgLayoutAsInt();
     SmallVector<int64_t> resultSgLayout = layout.getEffectiveSgLayoutAsInt();
-    DenseI32ArrayAttr sourceOrder = sourceLayout.getOrder();
     DenseI32ArrayAttr resultOrder = layout.getOrder();
 
-    if (!sourceOrder || !resultOrder) {
-      return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(
-          op, "Both source and result must have order attributes");
+    bool is1DTranspose = (llvm::count_if(resultSgLayout, [](int64_t dim) {
+                            return dim > 1;
+                          }) <= 1);
+
+    if (!is1DTranspose) {
+      if (!resultOrder) {
+        return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(
+            op, "Multi-dimensional Transposes must have order attributes");
+      }
     }
 
     ArrayRef<int64_t> permutation = op.getPermutation();
     size_t permutationSize = permutation.size();
-    if (sourceSgLayout.size() != permutationSize ||
-        resultSgLayout.size() != permutationSize) {
+    if (resultSgLayout.size() != permutationSize) {
       return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(
           op, "Layouts and permutation must have the same rank");
     }
 
-    // Check that sgLayout, sgData & order are properly transposed for source
-    // and result
-    if (!layout.isTransposeOf(sourceLayout, permutation))
-      return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(
-          op, "Result layout is not a valid transpose of source layout "
-              "according to permutation");
-
     SmallVector<int64_t> sgShape = getSgShapeAndCount(wgShape, layout).first;
     VectorType newResultType =
         VectorType::get(sgShape, resultType.getElementType());