In brief
The European Court of Human Rights held that Romania’s requirement of surgical gender-confirming intervention as a precondition for changing civil-status records violated Article 8. The Court reaffirmed that conditioning legal recognition on irreversible bodily intervention is disproportionate, applying the principle established in AP, Garçon and Nicot v France to the surgical-requirement case.
When relevant
When organisational policy demands surgical or specific medical evidence as a precondition for trans recognition. Extension of the AP / Garçon / Nicot principle.
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