European Court of Human Rights issues judgment in case from Finland14/11/2012 | Retrieved from the Internet on November 22, 2012 by SJ
http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/finland/h_v_finlandThe European Court of Human Rights issued yesterday a judgment in H v Finland (Appl. no. 37359/09). The case concerned a trans woman who was refused to legally change her gender since she did not want to divorce her wife and enter a registered partnership instead.The case H v Finland concerned a trans woman who had undergone gender reassignment treatment and had changed her first name. She wished to complete legal recognition of her gender through obtaining a new identity number, which would permit the change of her gender in official documents. However, this would have resulted in her marriage to a woman being converted into a registered partnership, something neither she nor her wife were prepared to accept. She complained that making the full recognition of her gender conditional on the transformation of her marriage into a civil partnership had violated her rights under Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).
