Small But Mighty German Transgender Legal Change
August 6th, 2008 by Babe
It appears that Germany is one of the few countries with an advanced view in respect to transgenders. There has been on their books a requirement that a man seeking legal recognition as a woman must obtain a divorce before having their new gender legally recognized.
In a landmark decision, Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a man seeking legal recognition as a woman will be allowed to stay married to his wife in a landmark decision that further strengthens the rights of transsexuals. The court said that law violated a person’s basic rights.
The court ruled in favor of a man who was born in 1929 who has three adult children and had been married for 56 years. He underwent a sex-change operation in 2002 and wanted to be legally recognized as a woman but could not until a divorce took place. The wife of the transsexual also did not want the marriage to be dissolved, the court heard.
The court ruled Germany’s transsexual law must be changed by August 2009. It has made other rulings in favour of transsexuals in recent years.
There are about 1,000 transsexuals in Germany.
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