nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230217-233156-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230217s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230217-233156-0 doi eng 342 23 Abeyratne, Rehan Author aut Incremental but Significant - Hong Kong’s Recent Transgender Rights Judgment Abeyratne, Rehan Verfassungsblog 2023-02-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 6 February 2023, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled in favor of two transgender applicants seeking to change the gender marker on their identification cards. The Court held that the Hong Kong government’s policy unconstitutionally infringed upon their right to privacy. This is doctrinally and strategically consistent with the Court’s LGBTQ jurisprudence, which proceeds incrementally and is highly attuned to the (ever-shrinking) political space in which Hong Kong courts operate. CC BY-SA 4.0 fundamental rights Hong Kong LGBTQI Trans rights transgender rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/incremental-but-significant/ raw object