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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230217-233156-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/incremental-but-significant/ Incremental but Significant - Hong Kong’s Recent Transgender Rights Judgment Abeyratne, Rehan eng 2023-02-17 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 fundamental rights Hong Kong LGBTQI Trans rights transgender rights Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.