According to a ruling delivered on Tuesday 26 June (C-451/16), a national provision demanding that person who has changed gender must be single to benefit from a state pension constitutes direct discrimination based on gender, contrary to European Union law.
The case involves MB who was born male in 1948 and who married a woman but who subsequently began to live as a woman. MB does not, however, hold a full certificate of recognition of her change of gender, because that would have required...