GHVINIASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 4 December 2019 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 55353/19Nikolo GHVINIASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 18 October 2019SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the inability of the applicant, who is a female‑to-male transgender person, to have his gender marker changed according to his self-identification in his identity documents and birth records. The domestic authorities rejected the applicant’s requests for the change of the gender marker on the ground that he had not undergone sex reassignment procedures. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES1.  Has the respondent State’s refusal to grant legal recognition to the applicants’ gender identity amounted to a violation of either Article 3 and/or Article 8 of the Convention (compare, mutatis mutandis, with A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France, nos. 79885/12 and 2 others, 6 April 2017 (extracts)) or to discriminatory treatment in breach …