A.D. and Others v. Georgia

Legal summaryDecember 2022A.D. and Others v. Georgia - 57864/17, 79087/17 and 55353/19Judgment 1.12.2022 [Section V]Article 8Positive obligationsArticle 8-1Respect for private lifeTransgender men unable to obtain legal recognition of their gender without having undergone medical procedures to change their sex characteristics, due to imprecision of legal framework: violationFacts – The applicants are three transgender men who made a request to the Civil Status Agency (“the agency”) to change the sex/gender marker in their civil-status records from female to male. The agency rejected the applicants’ requests on the basis that they had not shown that they had undergone medical sex reassignment procedures. Therefore, they had not changed their sex within the meaning of section 78(g) of the Civil Status Act 2011, as was required by that provision to amend public records. The applicants unsucc …