The paperwork should reflect the person’s “lived gender” rather than their biological sex, the European Court of Justice has decided
EU member states are obliged to amend the data on gender in the identification documents of citizens who have undergone a sex change, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled.
The papers of transgender persons in the bloc must reflect their “lived gender” rather than their biological sex, the Luxembourg-based body said on Thursday.
The CJEU was deciding on a 2017 case referred to it by Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation. It wanted to clarify if the country was required to make changes to the birth certificate of a Bulgarian man who had begun hormone therapy to start living as a woman after moving to Italy.
The authorities in Sofia had previously rejected the request, citing the fact that Bulgaria’s laws interpret ‘sex’ strictly in biological terms.
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