Two transgender persons who have not completed the surgery to change from female to male have applied to the Immigration Department to change their gender on their identity cards and have been refused.
They filed for judicial review, which were successively defeated by the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
The two filed an appeal to the Court of Final Appeal.
The Court of Appeal issued its verdict today (13th), pointing out that a number of legal disputes in the case were of great wide-ranging or public importance, and granted permission for the two to appeal to the final court.
The appellants are Q and Xie Haolin, and the respondent is the director of the Personnel Registration Office.
The Court of Appeal granted permission on a number of legal disputes, including transgender applications for changing gender on identity cards, the need to complete gender reassignment surgery, whether it constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, violation of Article 3 of the Human Rights Act, etc. .
In addition, whether the relevant policy interferes disproportionately with the applicant's privacy rights, and whether the court considers it, whether the measures imposed by the foreign government are given more weight.
Case No.: CACV 183-184/2019
Transgender people are dissatisfied with being refused to change their ID cards. The gender officer thinks that they have balanced interests and dismisses the appeal transgender review case.
Appeal | The government's response policy must be fair, objective and consistent, otherwise it will become a chaotic transgender review case.
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