The European Court of Human Rights has told Hungary it must allow trans people to change their legal gender. The ruling comes just six weeks after Hungary passed its cruel new anti-trans law.
The law – Article 33 – stops transgender people from changing their legal gender. As a result, it effectively makes Hungarian trans people legally invisible.
The case in question at the European court was about a Iranian refugee in Hungary – so specifically covered foreign citizens living in the country.
The court unanimously ruled that Hungary violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to recognize the Iranian trans man’s true gender.