The European Court of Human Rights ruled that transgender people in Europe are allowed to change their birth certificates according to their new gender identity and can marry. Denying transgender people the possibility to amend their birth certificates and not allowing them to marry is thus discriminatory and in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights'. Zie ook: A5205 t/m A5216
Children in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families are often victims of discrimination because many European countries do not legally recognise these families. Children in LGBT families often do not have the means of establishing a legally-recognised relationship between them. This leaves such relationships with a key adult in their life extremely vulnerable, which is certainly against the child's best interest, and may lead to a violation of a child's right to be raised by his or her parents'. Zie ook: A5205 t/m A5216