Polish Supreme Court issues landmark ruling simplifying process for changing legal gender
In a landmark ruling for trans people in Poland, the Supreme Court has issued a resolution declaring that someone wishing to change their officially recognised gender no longer needs to involve their parents in the case.
Up until now, people who wanted to change their gender have had to sue their parents to do so, even if they are adults. That practice made the process more difficult for those involved.
The new ruling has been welcomed as “groundbreaking” by the government’s equality minister. However, the very idea that someone can legally change their gender was condemned as an “ideological absurdity” by the far-right Confederation (Konfederacja) party.
International and Comparative SOGIESC Law - Professor Andreas R Ziegler 