Legal Recognition of Gender Change for Transsexual Persons in the United Kingdom: The Human Rights Act of 1998 and 'Compatibility' with European Human Rights Law
82 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2016
Date Written: 2005
Abstract
This article explores the evolution of legal recognition of transsexuals in their new gender under British and European law. It details the three and a half decade battle in England, as well as in the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice, leading to the enactment in the UK of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. It also compares these developments to the unsatisfactory state of the law on this subject in the US.
Keywords: transsexual, gender change, United Kingdom, Human Rights Act 1998, Gender Recognition Act 2004, European Court of Human Rights
JEL Classification: K3
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Rains, Robert E., Legal Recognition of Gender Change for Transsexual Persons in the United Kingdom: The Human Rights Act of 1998 and 'Compatibility' with European Human Rights Law (2005). Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 33, No. 333, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2713526
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