EU rules on IDs of transgender citizens

The paperwork should reflect the person’s “lived gender” rather than their biological sex, the European Court of Justice has decided

EU member states are obliged to amend the data on gender in the identification documents of citizens who have undergone a sex change, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled.

The papers of transgender persons in the bloc must reflect their “lived gender” rather than their biological sex...