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2010-08-09 15:08
HONG KONG  - A Hong Kong court began reviewing Monday a government decision to bar a transgender woman from marrying her male partner in the first such case to be heard in the city's legal system, the woman's lawyer said.
The woman, a local resident in her 20s who can be only identified as "W" under court order,air jordan, was born male but underwent ######-change surgery over the past five years but was prevented from marrying her boyfriend by Hong Kong's marriage registry, her lawyer Michael Vidler said.
"She is a woman and she should be entitled to the same rights as a woman," Vidler said by phone.
Vidler said authorities have acknowledged W's new gender in other respects: her hormone therapy and ###### change surgery were paid for by the government,abercrombie and fitch, and she has obtained a new identity card and school certificates stating she is female.
But when she tried to marry a man last year, her application was refused because her birth certificate, which cannot be changed,doudoune moncler pas cher, still states she is male and Hong Kong bans same-###### marriage.
The Hong Kong High Court's review of the marriage registry's decision was set for two days starting Monday.
"We're not trying to change the law and we don't see this case as affecting or requiring changes to any law," Vidler said. "We just want her to be seen as a woman and treated as a woman."
Transgender marriage is permitted in many European countries and some US states. In Asia,air jordan chaussure, countries that allow it include Japan, South Korea,abercrombie and fitch france, Singapore,moncler pas cher, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and mainland China, according to Prof. Sam Winter at the University of Hong Kong, who studies transgender issues.
"On ######ual matters, Hong Kong is a fairly conservative society. In this case, the government clearly takes the view that W is a man, and it is afraid stiff of opening the door to same-###### marriage," Winter said. "But W is a woman and should be regarded as a woman and should be given the rights of a woman to a hetero######ual marriage."
The government's position effectively means that W, though anatomically a woman,abercrombie and fitch paris, can only be allowed to marry another woman,doudoune moncler, Winter said. "That is a fairly delicious irony that comes out of the government's policy."
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