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EU States Must Provide Proper ID for Transgender Citizens
The ECJ found that denying transgender people legal gender recognition restricts freedom of movement and requires all 27 EU states to have clear procedures, affecting countries like Bulgaria.
- On Thursday the European Court of Justice ruled that Bulgaria’s ban on changing birth-certificate gender markers breaches EU law and returned the case to the Bulgarian court that referred it.
- After her request was denied by Bulgarian authorities, Shipova, a Bulgarian trans woman who moved to Italy and began hormone therapy, challenged Bulgaria's 2023 Supreme Court ban on gender-marker changes.
- In September the European Court of Justice gave a non-binding opinion recommending Bulgaria issue documents reflecting a trans person's lived experience, and Advocate General Richard de la Tour wrote that such laws restrict EU rights.
- The ECJ found Shipova was exercising free movement rights and noted that mismatches between lived gender and identity documents hinder freedom of movement for persons whose lived gender differs from identity-data on documents.
- The decision positions freedom of movement to protect gender identity across the EU, obliging member states to adopt clear recognition procedures, conflicting with Bulgaria's 2023 Supreme Court ruling.
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The Bulgarian Cassation Tribunal had called on "the moral and religious values of society" to reject the request.
·Portugal
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has upheld the right of trans persons to have their gender recognized in their official documents in the Member States. In a judgment published on Thursday, the highest European judicial body has given the right to a trans woman who had unsuccessfully asked Bulgaria, her native country, to update her data in the civil register. The Court considers that “the law of the Union precludes a court of a…
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right5Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution36% Left, 36% Right
Bias Distribution
- 36% of the sources lean Left, 36% of the sources lean Right
36% Right
L 36%
C 28%
R 36%
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