Officials claim that even if the marriage amendment bill is not passed by the government in July, transgender marriages will still be legal by then.
Officials told LegCo yesterday that the government was given a deadline of July this year to recognise the Court of Final Appeal case which granted a transgender person the right to marry her male fiancé. However, the government has been moving slowly with the process.
Secretary for Security, Lai Tung-kwok, reiterated that transgender people will still be able to marry without the passing of the bill as the court’s ruling automatic comes into effect and becomes law.
Some legislators have criticised the judges of the landmark CFA case for giving the government only one year to pass the bill, saying that even the UK took six years, and that it would probably have been a better idea to have made the case’s ruling effective immediately rather than give the government a timeline, reports the SCMP.
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