HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s High Court refused on Friday to allow three transgender men to be recognized as males on their official identity cards because they have not undergone full sex-change operations. That ruling was widely denounced by human rights and LGBT activists and may spark further legal action. Maria Sjodin, deputy executive director of OutRight Action International, which monitors LGBT rights issues worldwide, said she was unsure if all 22 of those countries have fully implemented the court’s order. In Hong Kong, the judgment seemed at odds with a 2013 ruling that allowed a transgender woman known as W to have her gender changed to female on her identity card. W had successfully sued in the city’s highest legal body, the Court of Final Appeal, for her right to marry her boyfriend.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 01, 2019 12:56 UTC