The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons is the result of an international research project including not only national reports from 14 european and non european jurisdictions but also two chapters that look at legal sex gender changes from a christian perspective and one chapter from a medical psychological perspective the final comparative chapter compares and contrasts the different approaches and requirements and makes recommendations for best practice and law reform. Pdf cambridge core family law the legal status of transsexual and transgender persons edited by jens m scherpe find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons is the result of an international research project including not only national reports from 14 european and non european jurisdictions but also two chapters that look at legal sex gender changes from a christian perspective and one chapter from a medical psychological perspective the final comparative chapter compares and contrasts the different approaches and requirements and makes recommendations for best practice and law reform. The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons the need to allow a change of legal sex gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions and for european countries there is no question as to whether such a change should be allowed after the decision of the european court of human rights in goodwin v