Transgender persons cases
We represent transgender persons in legal gender recognition procedures. We also provide legal assistance in administrative proceedings in cases concerning amending the birth certificate on the basis of a foreign document.
We have experience in representing transgender persons – citizens of countries outside the European Union who intend to have their legal gender recognized in Poland on the basis of a foreign administrative or court decision. We also advise on changing the first and last names of a transgender person.
Our experience:
- issuing the birth certificate of a child born by a transgender man [more about a case];
- legal gender recognition procedures aimed at amending the birth certificate, ID and name change [more about a Supreme Court decision in a case concerning the transgender person’s obligation to file a lawsuit against one’s children];
- amending the birth certificate on the basis of a foreign document, administrative or court decision.
What else we can do for you?
We provide comprehensive tax support to same-sex couples who, despite the lack of general solutions in the form of civil unions or marital equality, want to secure their finances (joint investments, financial protection for children, security clauses in the event of relationship’s dissolution of partner’s death).
We provide legal support in securing the legal status of children born through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, including in LGBT families.
We support victims of discrimination, in particular on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, e.g. in employment, access to services, healthcare or education, as well as victims of crimes motivated by prejudice, including hate speech.