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Concluding Observations, CAT/C/DEU/CO/5, 12 December 2011: Germany

Dec 12, 2011

20. The Committee takes note of the information received during the dialogue that the Ethical Council has undertaken to review the reported practices of routine surgical alterations in children born with sexual organs that are not readily categorized as male or...

AB v. Western Australia and AH v. Western Australia, High Court of Australia (6 October 2011)

Oct 6, 2011

Procedural Posture On appeal from the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which had decided that AH and AB could not be issued gender reassignment certificates because they each retained female reproductive organs. The Supreme Court of Western Australia had...

Andrea Fields v. Judy Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (5 August 2011)

Aug 5, 2011

Procedural Posture The district court invalidated a Wisconsin state statute prohibiting the Wisconsin Department of Corrections from providing transgender inmates with certain medical treatments, including hormonal therapy and sexual reassignment surgery. The...

Sentenza 5896/2011, Tribunal of Rome, Italy (11 March 2011)

Mar 11, 2011

Procedural Posture The applicant filed a request before the Tribunal of Rome to have her sex marker and name changed in all civil records. The Tribunal granted authorisation for surgical gender reassignment in an interlocutory judgment (n. 466/2007). At the next...

1 BvR 3295-07, Federal Constitutional Court, Germany (11 January 2011)

Jan 11, 2011

Procedural Posture Constitutional complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court. The complainant challenged a violation of her general right of personality and specifically the component of the right to sexual self-determination. Facts The complainant was born in...