Most Interesting 2020: Bassetti, Human Rights Bodies' Adjudication of Trans People's Rights: Shifting the Narrative from the Right to Private Life to Cruel and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment

The sixth in our series "Most Interesting 2020":

Matteo E. Bassetti, Human Rights Bodies' Adjudication of Trans People's Rights: Shifting the Narrative from the Right to Private Life to Cruel and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (European Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 291-325, November 2020)

This article shows a beautiful and groundbreaking analysis of how human rights bodies can and must step up their game to support transgender people in their fight for legal gender recognition and how the current processs for legal gender recognition can be classified as inhuman and degrading treatment.

Juliette Wyss
CIVICUS