據臺灣“中央社”消息，香港終審法院今天開審據稱是本地首例變性人爭取合法婚權案，預計審判將持續兩天。
Ecns - Hong Kong's highest court on Monday began hearing the final appeal of a transsexual woman who is seeking to marry her boyfriend, according to a Taiwan news agency. The hearing will last two days.
The transsexual woman lost her case twice after she was denied marriage registration by the city's Registrar of Marriages. Five judges heard Monday's hearing at Hong Kong's court of final appeal.
In the earlier lawsuits, some judges refused her appeal on the grounds that transsexual women cannot have children, and the woman's counsel said Monday that many couples suffering from infertility problems have the right to marry. His client's re-assignment surgery was done at a public hospital and was government-subsidized. Now she is "medically, psychologically and socially" a woman, he added.
According to Hong Kong's marriage law, marriage is only allowed between couples who were of the opposite sex at birth.
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