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Title: European court strikes down transgender marriage case
Post by: stephaniec on July 17, 2014, 05:08:37 PM
Post by: stephaniec on July 17, 2014, 05:08:37 PM
BRUSSELS - A Finnish citizen who wanted the state to recognise her new gender after surgery and remain legally married to woman at the same time lost her case at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday (16 July).
Heil Hamalainen underwent male-to-female gender reassignment surgery in 2009, years after she married her partner.
But Finnish law does not recognise same-sex marriages.
[Read more] (http://euobserver.com/justice/125005)