Thu, 17 Jul, 2014 12:03:48 AM FTimes-STT Report, July 17 ![]() File picture of same-sex female couple. Photo – Lehtikuva. Seta, the national organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTI) rights in Finland, has slated the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of a Finnish transsexual.
“The court found that it was not disproportionate to require the conversion of a marriage into a registered partnership as a precondition to legal recognition of an acquired gender as that was a genuine option which provided legal protection for same-sex couples that was almost identical to that of marriage,” said the registrar of the court in a statement.
Finland thus, according to the Grand Chamber, did not discriminate against transsexual male-to-female on refusal to grant change of personal identity number to indicate her female gender.
The judgement was given on Wednesday by the Grand Chamber judges by a majority of 14 to 3.
The case concerns a complaint made by a male-to-female transsexual that she could only obtain full recognition of her new gender by having her marriage turned into a civil partnership.
Seta Vice President Mikko Väisänen told the news agency STT that the decision by ECTHR in relation to its previous unanimous stance could be taken as a step forward. Out of the 17 Grand Chamber judges, three had expressed separate opinions.
Väisänen also hopes that the decision would trigger a new debate in the country.
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