Hämäläinen v. Finland, ECtHR, 37359/09, 16/07/2014 [GC]
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2014

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership

Dissenting / Concurring: Ziemele / Sajó, Keller and Lemmens

Santos Couto v. Portugal, ECtHR, 31874/07, 21/09/2010
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2010

Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) in conjunction with Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) - The applicant argued that his conviction for homosexual activities with adolescents had been discriminatory as it had been based on his sexual orientation - No violation 

Schlumpf v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 29002/06, 08/01/2009
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2009

Article 6 (Fair hearing/Public hearing) Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to hear expert evidence in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation and lack of public hearing in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation - Balancing of competing interests of applicant and her insurers in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with a sex-change operation

Dissenting / Concurring: Vajić, Jebens

B.B. v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 53760/00, 10/02/2004 [GC]
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2002

Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8 - The applicant alleged discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and on the grounds of age, on the basis that the legislation set down different ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts 

Dissenting / Concurring: Lemmens, Vehabović, Bošnjak / Pinto de Albuquerque / Lemmens, Vehabović, Ranzoni, Bošnjak

Sheffield and Horsham v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 22985/93, 23390/94, 30/07/1998 [GC]
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1998

Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) – Request of amendment of birth certificates following  gender reassignment by two transgender men – No violation

Dissenting / Concurring: De Meyer, Valticos, Morenilla / Freeland / Bernhardt, Thór Vilhjálmsson, Spielmann, Palm, Wildhaber, Makarczyk, Voicu / Casadevall / van Dijk / Wildhaber

B. v. France, ECtHR, 13343/87, 25/03/1992 [GC]
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1992

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Non-recognition in law of the new sexual identity of a post-operative transsexual

Dissenting / Concurring: Russo / Bernhardt, Pekkanen, Morenilla, Baka / Matscher, Pinheiro Farinha, Pettiti, Valticos, Loizou, Morenilla / Walsh / Martens

Cossey v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 10843/84, 27/09/1990 [GC]
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1990

Whether denying a transsexual the right to change their sex on their birth certificate violated the right to privacy under Article 8 - Whether denying a transsexual permission to marry a person of the same (biological) sex violated the right to marry under Article 12.

Dissenting / Concurring: Bindschedler-Robert, Russo / Macdonald, Spielmann / Martens / Palm, Foighel, Pekkanen