COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Gender equality

Court of Justice rules that refusal of Member State to recognise change of first name and gender lawfully acquired elsewhere in EU is unlawful

Brussels, 04/10/2024 (Agence Europe)

A Member State cannot refuse to recognise a change of first name and gender that a European citizen has legally acquired in another European Union country, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU in a judgment handed down on Friday 4 October (case C-4/23).

In 2017, a Romanian-British citizen legally changed his first name and title from female to male in the UK, where he had been resident since 2008. Following Brexit, this person requested that his birth certificate be amended accordingly. He...