Intersex: Constitutional Court paves the way for third gender

 Marriage equality: Citizens initiative succesfully concluded
 

JUS AMANDI Ausgabe 1/2018 | JUS AMANDI Archiv

Also sex-"normalising" surgery on children held inadmissible

By a decision of 14 March 2018, delivered today, the Austrian Constitutional Court opened proceedings for the repeal of state registration of sex (E 2918/2016). An intersex person, being neither male nor female, had asked the civil status office to correct the entry in the birth register from male to "inter", "other", "X" or a similar designation, or to delete the sex-entry as a whole. After the civil status office had refused and the Administrative Court confirmed the Constitutional Court now preliminarily has found in favor of the intersex person. Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), Austria´s LGBTI-civil rights organisation, calls the case ground-breaking for the rights of intersex persons.

 Austria: first European country recognizes marriage equality as a human right
 

JUS AMANDI Ausgabe 4/2017 | JUS AMANDI Archiv

We won, by all terms!

The Austrian Constitutional Court, in proceedings litigated by RKL-president Dr. Helmut Graupner, just
a) opened up marriage for same-gender couples and
b) opened up registered partnership for opposite-gender couples 
(both from 1 January 2019)

First success for the 5 children for marriage
In a decision of 12 October the Austrian Constitutional Court followed the arguments of the 5 children for marriage and preliminarily reversed its case-law (that segregation into marriage and registered partnerships is admissible).