Perkins and R. v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 43208/98, 44875/98, 22/10/2002
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2002

The applicants complain under Article 8, alone and in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention, in relation to the investigation into a most intimate part of their private lives (including, in the second applicant’s case, the search and confiscation of her personal belongings) and in relation to their subsequent discharge from the armed forces pursuant to the absolute policy against homosexuals in the armed forces

Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 33985/96, 33986/96, 27/09/1999
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1999

Article 8 (Respect for private life) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discharge from army due to implementation of policy against participation of homosexual in armed forces - Discharge from army due to implementation of policy against participation of homosexual in armed forces

Dissenting / Concurring: Loucaides

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

X, Y and Z v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 21830/93, 22/04/1997 [GC]
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1997

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for family life) - Refusal to register post-operative transsexual as father of child born to partner by artificial insemination by donor

Dissenting / Concurring: Pettiti / De Meyer / Casadevall, Russo, Makarczyk / Thór Vilhjálmsson / Foighel / Gotchev

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

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

Dudgeon v. United Kingdom, ECtHR, 7525/76, 22/10/1981 [GC]
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1981

Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which criminalised male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breached the defendant's rights under Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: Zekia / Evrigenis, García de Enterría / Matscher / Pinheiro Farinha / Walsh