The Court of Justice of the European Communities has just ruled that the refusal to grant a pension at the women's retirement age to a male who became a female constitutes a discrimination violating the Community directive on equal treatment as regards social security. (Ref. 06419)
Sarah Margaret Richards is a female British citizen, her birth certificate registered her gender as male. After having undergone, in May 2001, a surgical operation of sexual conversion, she asked, in February 2002, to benefit from a retirement pension as from her 60th birthday. This request was rejected by the British office of retirement pensions on the motive that it was introduced more than four months before the applicant reaches 65 years old (the age of retirement for men in the United...
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