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EU States Must Recognise Transgender Identities Across the Bloc, Top Court Rules

by Will Jones
5 October 2024 1:00 PM

European Union countries must recognise gender and name changes made in other member states, the bloc’s top court the European Court of Justice has ruled, dismaying countries pushing back against gender ideology. The Telegraph has the details.

In what was hailed as a “monumental victory” for transgender people, judges in Luxembourg said Romania had broken EU law by refusing to accept a British-Romanian transgender man’s change of sex and name from female to male, which he was granted in the U.K. before the Brexit transition period ended.

In a ruling that sets a precedent across the bloc, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that lawful name and gender changes made in other EU states had to be automatically accepted to protect EU rights to free movement and residence.

It said that Brexit was not relevant because Britain was still a member state during the transition period, when Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi was granted a gender recognition certificate in 2020, after moving to the U.K. in 2008 and gaining British citizenship.

Mr. Mirzarafie-Ahi had applied for a new birth certificate from the Romanian authorities, who ordered him to restart a lengthy gender-recognition procedure in Romania rather than accepting the U.K. documents.

“Today’s verdict has shown us that trans people are equal citizens of the European Union,” said Iustina Ionescu, Mr. Mirzarafie-Ahi’s lawyer. …

The decision will not be universally welcomed across Europe. EU members Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria have bans or plan to ban people from legally changing their gender.

Rodrigo Ballester, the head of the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium think tank in Budapest, which has links to the Hungarian Government, said: “Utterly shocking and very banal at the same time. Once again, the European Court of Justice tramples over basic legal principles for ideological purposes and erodes member states’ competences through ludicrous reasonings.

“Its ultimate goal is not to enforce the law, but to force further integration. Not to mention that it ignores Brexit as if it had never happened. It is no longer judicial activism, it has become ideological crusading.”

“No individual, nor government, should be forced to affirm something that is untrue. Men cannot become women, and claiming this can have severe consequences in many areas of life,” said Lois McLatchie Miller, a spokeswoman for the Alliance Defending Freedom International campaign group. 

“Every government has a duty to protect the rights of their citizens – be it vulnerable women in crisis rape shelters, in prisons or in changing rooms.

“Granting a biological male access to these spaces by recognising a ‘change in gender’ puts women’s safety and wellbeing in jeopardy and often leads to censored and compelled speech.

“When biology is ignored, and words like ‘sex’ lose their meaning, it is women and girls who bear the brunt of that mistake.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BrexitEUEuropean Court of JusticeGender IdeologyTransgender RightsTransgenderismWoke Gobbledegook

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zebedee
zebedee
1 month ago

My understanding is that cousin marriage is also common in some traveller communities. That the resulting children are seen as a blessing and spend all their time in hospital. Since they are a blessing they should be discharged so that they can be with their families who then may no longer see them as a blessing.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
1 month ago
Reply to  zebedee

Needs to be banned also the sake of the unfortunate infants born with these hideous defects.

FFS the commie bastards are rarely slow to ban anything on various spurious grounds.

Here the moral and scientific/medical case is absolutely undeniable.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 month ago

Ban it with immediate effect. If this business continues the perps must be advised that “free NHS ” services will be withdrawn for life.

These people are costing law-abiding British taxpayers an absolute fortune, they are usually incapable of work and live off taxpayers their whole lives as do the parents who bred them. This has to stop.

Enough.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I haven’t fact checked this but I’ll assume it’s true. That’s a lot of Muslim mayors, and 130 Sharia courts in the England!

https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1912914814608810458

EDIT: Just fact checked myself. 8 Muslim mayors as of last year;

”In 2011, the United Kingdom saw the rise of a new wave of mayors – Muslim mayors. Born in a country where religious faiths have long been a divisive and contentious issue, the election of the first British Muslim mayors was a momentous occasion. It was a sign of progress and inclusion, the first steps towards a multicultural and diverse society. Since then, the number of Britain’s Muslim mayors has grown, raising the question: How many cities in Great Britain have Muslim mayors? The answer is that currently, there are eight British cities with Muslim mayors: Leicester, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford, Oldham, and Tower Hamlets.”

https://www.greatbritainmighty.com/how-many-cities-in-great-britain-have-muslim-mayors/

Last edited 1 month ago by Mogwai
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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
1 month ago

Yep, some years ago I had a Pakistani colleague who was married to his cousin and they had a son with a serious congenital kidney problem.
There is a reason why both Judaism and Christianity bans the practice.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
1 month ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Since when? In 1837 Queen Victoria, for example, was not banned from marrying her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, or wherever it was.

Last edited 1 month ago by allanplaskett
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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Yes, and just look at the current lot.

It’s apparently only Harry that is keen to diversify the gene pool. Perhaps because he is already from diverse stock, if you know what I mean….

Last edited 1 month ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 month ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

😀😀😀

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

🤭😉

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Ant
Ant
1 month ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

If he was Hewitt’s, he’d be devilishly handsome rather than a ardmann creation.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago
Reply to  Ant

Dunno. My parents are beautiful and I look like a deformed rugby ball from a certain angle.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 month ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Yes, the Government very belatedly recognised the consequence of the generational incestuous Royal marriages throughout Europe.

The late Queen Mother was the first example of a change of policy: Bertie was allowed to marry a non-royal since he was never going to become King 🙂 And then Edward VIII refused to play ball and suddenly we got King George VI and non-Royal Elizabeth.

With Queen Elizabeth II they reverted to cousin marriage, albeit 2nd cousins, once removed ….. and Charles is the consequence. ‘Nuff said.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 month ago
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Judaism doesn’t ban marriage between first and second cousin.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 month ago

Off-T

Yvette Cooper to Decide on Tulip Siddiq Extradition Request

Siddiq could soon be reunited with her cousins in Bangladesh. This should be an interesting case of Kneel’s Two-tier justice.

Looking forward to this.

“YVETTE COOPER TO DECIDE ON TULIP SIDDIQ EXTRADITION REQUEST”
https://order-order.com/2025/04/17/yvette-cooper-to-decide-on-tulip-siddiq-extradition-request/#:~:text=YVETTE%20COOPER%20TO%20DECIDE%20ON%20TULIP%20SIDDIQ%20EXTRADITION%20REQUEST

Last edited 1 month ago by huxleypiggles
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Grim Ace
Grim Ace
1 month ago

Allah is a nasty God, If you ask me

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 month ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

Read the Quran for confirmation. Ultimate hate book

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Ant
Ant
1 month ago

I live in leafy Sussex and even here you see pakistani parents walking with their disabled kids. It’s a far bigger problem than this research shows.

Until a credible figure is put on the cost to both the NHS and the DWP of birth defects and their consequences due to cousin marriage, this subject will be dismissed as bigotry by the usual voices on the left and in Westminster.

When this study first emerged, a figure of £2bn a year was estimated as the cost to the NHS of birth defects, miscarriages etc. You could reasonably double that today. The long term cost in disability support to the DWP would be an order of many magnitudes higher. That is the figure that’s needed to stop this dreadful practice.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 month ago

The real problem is that is repeated down the generations. As a one off it is usually fine.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 month ago

“For the time being, raising scientific literacy may go some way to curbing the practice.”

I doubt it. It will continue to be imposed since it keeps any wealth within the immediate family and facilitates continual immigration from the sub-continent to the UK …… and a subsidised life c/o British taxpayers.

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