{"id":146564,"date":"2018-06-26T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/transgender-woman-wins-pension-court-battle\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T08:47:53","slug":"transgender-woman-wins-pension-court-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/transgender-woman-wins-pension-court-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender woman wins pension court battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/101EE\/production\/_102203066_a2a56bd1-0401-40fc-bfbe-61ece938d1ca.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  EPA                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A transgender woman who was unable to access her pension, was discriminated against because of her sex, the European Court of Justice has found.<\/p>\n<p>The woman - known as MB - was refused the female state pension after she chose not to annul her marriage.<\/p>\n<p>MB said she preferred to stay married to her wife &quot;in the sight of God&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But a court has ruled a person who has changed gender does not have to annul the marriage they entered into before that change, to receive a pension.<\/p>\n<p>Under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, trans people acquired the right to formally change their gender by obtaining a full &quot;gender recognition certificate&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But a certificate could not be issued to a married person who did not have their marriage annulled on the basis of their gender change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPA A transgender woman who was unable to access her pension, was discriminated against because of her sex, the European Court of Justice has found. The woman -<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}