C-13/94, CJEU, 30/04/1996

Article 5(1) of the Directive 76/207/EEC precludes dismissal of a transsexual for a reason related to a gender reassignment – Intention to undergo gender reassignment, surgery to give the physical attributes of a woman – Discrimination is based, essentially if not exclusively, on the sex of the person concerned 

Judge Rapporteur: P. J. G. Kapteyn