Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid

(AFP) – 9 hours ago

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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.

Hmm, there were a case that made the news that's exactly the same last year. Same case? I hope she win, would benefit me!

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Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer

(AFP) – 11 hours ago

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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.