LinkHanded down by Mr Justice Gino Camilleri on Thursday, the landmark court ruling obliged the director of Public Registry to issue marriage banns for a person who was born a man, but was legally declared a woman after complete gender reassignment surgery.
Civil rights activists and members of the transsexual community have since hailed this decision as a step in the right direction. But according to Parliamentary Secretary within the Justice and Home Affairs Ministry, Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, "the state has yet to analyse the sentence".
"I am morally against this myself. I wouldn't say it's a great step in the history of humanity, although I do sympathise with the trauma transsexuals go through," Mifsud Bonnici said. "But I still have to read the full sentence and see whether the State is being obliged to allow transsexuals to get married."
