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