TIMES OF MALTA.COM
'Transgender's case should be thrown out'
Saturday, July 14, 2012 by Matthew Xuereb
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120714/local/-Transgender-s-case-should-be-thrown-out-.428446 (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120714/local/-Transgender-s-case-should-be-thrown-out-.428446)
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Joanne Cassar has been fighting for her right to marry since 2006.
The European Court of Human Rights ought to overturn a 2002 judgement that separated the right to marry from the right to form a family and throw out the case a transgender filed against Malta, according to an international NGO.
In submissions on the case Joanne Cassar filed against Malta, which is pending before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the European Centre for Law and Justice said the court should look at this case as an opportunity to move away from the "progressive" and return to the "traditional" – that the right to marry and the right to form a family are intertwined.
Ms Cassar, who has been fighting for her right to get married since 2006, took her case to the European Court, asking for an effective remedy after a Constitutional Court in Malta ruled that a ban on transgender marriage violated the right to marry.
I hope our sister pulls through and gets the happiness she deserves.
I am maltese too and send my best of wishes her way to fight for equality there
fight on sister