Read the full judgment text of FACV 4/2012 on BabelCite. This FACV judgment was delivered on 13 May 2013.
1. The appellant, W, is a post-operative male-to-female transsexual person. In common parlance, she is a transsexual person who has undergone “sex change” operations and now lives as and appears in all respects to be a woman. She and her male partner wish to get married. However, the Registrar of Marriages has decided that she does not qualify as “a woman” under the Marriage Ordinance and the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance, so that there is no power to celebrate a marriage between her and her ma
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