Trans specific issues
Find cases and judgments regarding legal recognition of gender reassignment and right of a trans person to contract a different-sex legal marriage and insurance coverage for medical expenses related to gender reassignment.
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- Requirement to change legal sex on birth certificate
- B. v. France (25 March 1992) (violation of Article 8, private life)
- Requirement to change legal sex on birth certificate and permit transsexual persons to marry a person of the sex opposite to their reassigned sex
- Christine Goodwin v. U.K. (11 July 2002) (violation of Article 8, private life);
- Requirement to grant pension to post-operative transsexual woman at same age as other women
- Grant v. U.K. (23 May 2006) (violation of Article 8, private life)
- Absence of legislation regulating full gender-reassignment surgery.
- L. v. Lithuania (11 Sept. 2007) (violation of Article 8, private life)
Insurance coverage for medical expenses related to gender reassignment
- van Kück v. Germany (12 June 2003) (violation of Article 8, private life) (where insurance plan covers "medically necessary" treatment, gender reassignment must be included)
- Schlumpf v. Switzerland (8 Jan. 2009) (violation of Article 8, private life) (national court should have considered exception to rule requiring two years of non-surgical treatment before cost of surgery could be reimbursed)
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