Christine Goodwin v United Kingdom was a 2002 decision of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the United Kingdom's continuing refusal to give legal recognition to the post operative gender of transgender people, including for purposes such as marriage and pension eligibility, violated the right to respect for private life and the right to marry under the European Convention on Human Rights. The judgment reversed the Court's own earlier case law, which had found no such violation, and it prompted the United Kingdom's Gender Recognition Act of 2004, which created a legal process for changing a person's recorded gender.
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