Press Release: Judgment in Case C-451/16. MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Change of gender and retirement pension)

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Series Details No.92, 2018 (26.06.18)
Publication Date 26/06/2018
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A person who has changed gender cannot be required to annul the marriage which he or she entered into before that change of gender in order to be entitled to receive a retirement pension at the age provided for persons of the sex which he or she has acquired.

Such a condition constitutes direct discrimination based on sex.

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