On Thursday, 22 May, a coalition of LGBT rights organisations, including ILGA-Europe, published a joint statement following a hearing held by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Shipov case.
The hearing followed a complaint filed by a Bulgarian transgender woman who currently lives in Italy. Her requests to have her gender marker and her name legally changed on her Bulgarian identity documents have been rejected by the Bulgarian courts several times.
The CJEU has...