Marital status change not a violation of transsexual's human rightsThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that requiring a transsexual to change her marital status does not constitute a violation of her rights.
In Hämäläinen v. Finland, a panel of judges ruled on the case of a Finnish national who was born as a man. Despite her always feeling like "she was a female in a male body", Heli Hämäläinen attempted to live as man for several years.
She got married to a woman in 2002 and the couple subsequently had a child. In April 2006 she was officially diagnosed as a transsexual and has since lived as a woman. She underwent gender reassignment surgery in September 2009.
Ms Hämäläinen successfully changed her first names, but she was unable to change her national identification number. As a result, she is still listed as male on that and her passport.
In Finland, each citizen is given an eleven character identity number which includes their year of birth and a three character sequence to indicate gender: odd numbers for males, even numbers for females.
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