Lithuania sued over transsexual

[jawnbc]

A Lithuanian transsexual has taken Lithuania to court in Strasbourg for failing to provide a legal framework for him to complete his sex change.

The 28-year-old man, identified only as Mr L, was born and registered as female, but since 1998 has undergone hormone treatment and breast removal. His doctors say they will complete the operation only when legal conditions are established. The case at the European Court of Human Rights claims his rights were violated. His lawyers said his rights had been breached on several grounds, including respect for private life, the right to marry, discrimination and the prohibition of degrading treatment.

Mr L has adopted a Slavic name to conceal his gender - Lithuanian names are gender-specific. But he says he suffers a vast amount of daily embarrassment because the prefix on his official documents identifies him as a woman.

[pinched from here]

Comments

[jeffbriggs.livejournal.com]

I really feel for this man. Not only is he going through such a hard process to establish the gender he feels comfortable in, he is now caught in bureaucratic bullshit.

[jeneration.livejournal.com]

Poor bugger.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

I love the European Court for Human Rights...

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

My Lithuanian last name is gender-specific? I had no idea.

[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who wasn't allowed to attend the art school she was accepted to because she was born overseas and had a gender-specific last name on her birth certificate. The US processed all of her paperwork under her father's spelling - which was masculine and differed slightly - so the school said they couldn't prove that she was the person she said she was, due to the discrepency.

I understand wanting to maintain tradition, but gender-specific last names are a nightmare in the modern red-tape world and should probably be allowed to pass into cultural history.

[jawnbc]

only in countries that demand/presume that children have their father's surnames. Because, like, you know, all kids come from nuclear, 2 parent, hetero, married families.

If my tubes weren't tied, I'd give my kids the last name Throatwarblermangrove. Just to make the point.

[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend wants to name his children with all different socially challenging last names.

I told him good luck with that.

You're right, though. My country is moronic all over. On the front page of the Buffalo news Wednesday was a six-column excuse from Bush on why he won't send any aid to help with the cleanup for our state of emergency. He says that all of the country's resources were needed for that earthquake in Hawaii. But on page 4 they had a tiny article stating that even though it cost $400,000 to send relief workers to Hawaii, all they're doing is driving around and fetching and carrying. There wasn't enough emergency to warrant the aid sent.

I just got my power on last night - that's eight days of darkness and cold. Soup kitchens have been overrun with people who have no food or heat or money, since the driving ban caused some people to lose an entire week's pay.

The Mormons sent us truckfulls of canned food for the needy, so at least someone cared enough to help.

Gotta love America.

[jawnbc]

jesus I didn't know you were in the middle of this....

[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

They declared that some of our suburbs were worse than post-Katrina! (I'm not sure I believe that, but that's what they've said).

But things are getting fixed up. Fortunately, I live in the city proper, which wasn't as bad hit. The worst I'm going to have to deal with is rebuying all of the groceries we lost and having a reduced paycheck. But a lot of people are really bad off.

Too bad New York isn't a swing state. If we were red or questionable maybe it wouldn't be a waste of time to send us aid.

[stoplabelingme.livejournal.com]

On the topic of America-

Do you know we currently have eight US troops on trial for murders/rapes/muder-rapes committed in Iraq? Three seperate cases!

The lawyer for a soldier who participated in the revoltingly premeditated gang rape of a 14 year old girl and the murder of her, her mother and her little sister commented that he was "shocked" his client faces the death penalty.

What happens in Iraq stays in Iraq, and the life of one murdering pedophilic rapist is worth that of any number of brown people, we're to suppose?

At least they ARE facing consequences, though. I guess some crimes are too heinous for even this administration to sweep under the rug.