Conditions for recognition of change of gender — National legislation under which such recognition is subject to the annulment of any marriage entered into before that change of gender — Refusal to grant a person who has changed gender a State retirement pension as from the pensionable age for persons of the gender acquired

Right of Union citizens to move and reside freely in the territory of the Member States — Definition of ‘spouse’ — Marriage between persons of the same sex

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, article 7, respect for private and family life — Directive 2011/95/EU, standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status, fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Assessment of facts and circumstances, recourse to an expert’s report, psychological tests

Italian Cassazione recognizes stepchild adoption in special cases - Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples - The sexual orientation of the adoptive parent is not relevant

Possibility of weighing, in the specific case, whether it is in the best interests of the minor child to maintain meaningful relations with the biological parent's ex-partner [in particular, following the termination of the homo-affective cohabitation between them]

Recognition in Italy of a foreign judgment establishing the child’s adoption by the parent's spouse - Civil partnership between adoptee and biological parent merged in same-sex marriage celebrated abroad

Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and age — Payment of a survivor’s benefit to the civil partner — Partnership contracted before the 60th birthday of the member of the scheme

Dismissal of a military police officer pursuant to the army's rules of discipline prohibiting homosexual acts is incompatible with the Inter-American system's principles of equality and non-discrimination

Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Effects of the judgment regarding the correction on preexisting marriage – Automatic termination of the civil effects resulting from the registration of the marriage celebrated by religious rite, without the need for an application and judicial decision

Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution

Collective agreement which restricts a benefit in respect of pay and working conditions to employees who marry – Exclusion of partners entering into a civil solidarity pact – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Minimum standards relating to the conditions for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of membership of a particular social group – Acts sufficiently serious to justify such a fear, legislation criminalising homosexual acts

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Same-sex couple - Marriage contracted abroad by two same-sex Italian citizens - Impossibility of registering in Italy a marriage contracted abroad between same-sex people

Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Same-sex future spouses’ request seeking to obtain publication of notice of their intention to marriage - Refusal of the civil registrar since Italian legal system makes no provision for marriage between individuals of the same sex on the grounds that this would be contrary to public order - Refusal to allow persons of homosexual orientation to contract marriage with persons of the same sex

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Civil service, contract staff — Family allowances, same-sex couple, household allowance, condition for granting — Access to legal marriage

Survivors’ benefits under a compulsory occupational pensions scheme – Refusal because the persons concerned were not married – Discrimination based on sexual orientation