In brief
The European Court of Human Rights held that France’s requirement that applicants for legal gender recognition demonstrate the irreversible nature of their gender transition — a requirement effectively necessitating sterilisation — violated Article 8 of the Convention. The Court found that conditioning the exercise of the right to respect for private life on the renunciation of the right to physical integrity was incompatible with Article 8. The decision is the leading ECHR authority on the bodily-integrity proportionality limit.
When relevant
When evaluating policy that conditions internal recognition (HR records, ID cards, customer accounts) on disproportionate medical or surgical evidence. When considering bodily-integrity proportionality.
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