Natasha  🇪🇺3d ago

Irish Legal News: A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition “double underlines” the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told ...

"Paragraph 54 is also a rebuke to the UK Supreme Court in FWS – when the Equality Act 2010 was laid down, the UK was part of the EU and UK protections against discrimination had to work in line with EU law, a factor in statutory interpretation that the UKSC skips over in FWS.”

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/eu-ruling-double-underlines-trans-rights-must-stay-in-northern-ireland

#Ireland #NI #UK #Transrights #EU #Brexit

New CJEU ruling ‘double underlines’ transgender rights must stay in Northern Ireland

A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition "double underlines" the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last week rul

Irish Legal News
Show threadJayne 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@Natasha_Jay

Bravo Zulu #Ireland 👏👏👏👏👏

Show threadNatasha  🇪🇺
@TCMuffin
It's not news that the FWS is incompatible with ECtHR - and hence CJEU - decisions but it's getting more obvious in each case in Europe since then including a GDPR case from memory (this is why the UK imo is sidestepping putting gender on digital IDs, it would openly break UK GDPR alignment with the EU)
Mar 16 at 5:08pmWeb