Post by @joost@freesewing.social

2026-03-13 16:00 UTC

Good news for our trans friends: The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that European Union nations must provide transgender citizens with identification documents reflecting their &quot;lived gender&quot; rather than their gender at birth. To translate this for non-EU people, it&#39;s the equivalent of the US supreme court (the ECJ here) ruling that states (the EU Member States here) must respect people&#39;s gender choices. Source: https://www.euractiv.com/news/gender-changes-must-be-recognised-across-borders-eu-top-court-rules/

Replies (5)

@AutumnBaum@mindly.social 2026-03-13 18:47

@joost Congratulations! Normally, my hope would be that this type of legislature would spread to the United States. With our current administration, I have no hope of that. That doesn't mean I'm bitter against anybody who is able to make use of this landmark decision! I wish you the best!

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@RichRARobi@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 19:20

@joost I trust that the #british #ukgovernment is paying ATTENTION ? Doubt it somehow, they have their heads firmly stuck up #trump 's fat posterior. Stop sex discrimination in #uk

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@KarlHeinzHasliP@climatejustice.social 2026-03-13 20:45

@joost ... Amd then 4 years later they declare all those passports invalid like in the US? Not good enough. Delete the category, gender does not belong on ID documents.

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@thias@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 07:32

@joost the interesting thing is that in the previous case (Hungary) - the court based their decision on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the right to control one’s data.

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@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com 2026-03-15 01:12

@joost and Portugal and its cryptofascist gov is trying to pass a law that says the opposite. fucking hell

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