European News 🇪🇺Mar 13

EU states must provide proper ID for transgender citizens

The EU's top court on Thursday said the bloc's countries must provide trans citizens IDs reflecting their "lived gender." The case was referred to the ECJ by Bulgaria, which sought clarity on the issue.

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-states-must-provide-proper-id-for-transgender-citizens/a-76336447

EU states must provide proper ID for transgender citizens

The EU's top court on Thursday said the bloc's countries must provide trans citizens IDs reflecting their "lived gender." The case was referred to the ECJ by Bulgaria, which sought clarity on the issue.

Deutsche Welle
Show threadArikMar 13
@eunews or, maybe it's time to stop mentioning people's gender on ID documents. Like, completely eliminate it. There's no actual reason for it.
Show threadMx. Alba 
@pq1r @eunews

The thing is that the presence of ones gender on ones identification documents is something that is mandated by global consensus... So making sure that at least reflects people's lived identities is a lot easier to do than completely omitting it. And even that is proving quite hard to do, actually...
Mar 13 at 1:53pmWeb
Show threadArikMar 13
@MxAlba @eunews I'd be quite happy to get rid of that consensus globally as well. ICAO determines what information needs to be on a passport, if they decide gender doesn't have to show up on passports then countries can omit it.
Show threadmayu Mar 14
@MxAlba @pq1r @eunews European IDs are really only valid within EU + the few Schengen countries that aren't EU, no reason to keep it on there
Passports are a bit more tricky
Show threadMx. Alba Mar 14
@mayu @pq1r @eunews
Actually I kinda like the fact that my ID card has my gender X/X on it. It has helped me a few times to prove that something other than M/M and V/F actually exists...