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 Mar 13
@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...
Show threadArik
@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.
Mar 13 at 5:43pmWeb