In Brazil, a high court allowed a person to identify as gender neutral on official documents via a ruling made by a panel of the Superior Court of Justice in the capital city of Brasilia.
The case that reached the high court involved a person seeking a gender-neutral designation on their birth certificate. This person initially requested to be described as male following a hormone treatment, but later regretted this and appealed to the court.
This case is – however – currently sealed, according to the Superior Court of Justice in a statement.
All the same, Nancy Andrighi, one of the judges in the panel and the case rapporteur, said in her ruling that this issue is dramatic.
“This human being must be suffering greatly. To undergo surgery, take hormones, become what she thought would be good for her and then realize it was not the case,” Andrighi wrote.
The other four judges of the panel agreed.
While unprecedented, this decision could still be appealed and thus reviewed.
