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Title: Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid
Post by: Shana A on August 08, 2010, 07:53:08 AM
Post by: Shana A on August 08, 2010, 07:53:08 AM
Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid
(AFP) – 9 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTjO-XWYFwBNnhCQmoVBgKPPt_rA (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTjO-XWYFwBNnhCQmoVBgKPPt_rA)
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong transsexual has launched a landmark court challenge to win the right to marry her boyfriend after city officials blocked the move, a report said Sunday.
The Chinese woman in her 20s -- who was born a man -- was denied the right to marry her male partner by Hong Kong's Registrar of Marriages last year because her birth certificate still identified her as a man, the Sunday Morning Post said.
Changing gender on a birth certificate is not permitted under Hong Kong law which technically meant the woman could only marry another woman, the Post said, adding that same-sex marriages are also banned in the city.
(AFP) – 9 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTjO-XWYFwBNnhCQmoVBgKPPt_rA (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTjO-XWYFwBNnhCQmoVBgKPPt_rA)
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong transsexual has launched a landmark court challenge to win the right to marry her boyfriend after city officials blocked the move, a report said Sunday.
The Chinese woman in her 20s -- who was born a man -- was denied the right to marry her male partner by Hong Kong's Registrar of Marriages last year because her birth certificate still identified her as a man, the Sunday Morning Post said.
Changing gender on a birth certificate is not permitted under Hong Kong law which technically meant the woman could only marry another woman, the Post said, adding that same-sex marriages are also banned in the city.
Title: Re: Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid
Post by: Keroppi on August 08, 2010, 08:25:03 AM
Post by: Keroppi on August 08, 2010, 08:25:03 AM
Hmm, there were a case that made the news that's exactly the same last year (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KK17Ad01.html). Same case? I hope she win, would benefit me!
Post Merge: August 10, 2010, 02:43:47 PM
Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer
(AFP) – 11 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfEiXo2iykRdhuyeLDrwPjRMX8GQ (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfEiXo2iykRdhuyeLDrwPjRMX8GQ)
HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city.
Post Merge: August 10, 2010, 02:43:47 PM
Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer
(AFP) – 11 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfEiXo2iykRdhuyeLDrwPjRMX8GQ (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfEiXo2iykRdhuyeLDrwPjRMX8GQ)
HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city.