It's a first.
According to a decision rendered on July 4, the court of first instance of Monaco authorized one of its nationals to modify his gender and his first name in the civil status.
The mention “female sex” must replace “male sex” on his birth certificate.
The decision may be appealed by the public prosecutor's office.
"We seized the Monegasque court on the basis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights", explains Me Patrice Spinosi, one of the applicant's lawyers, with Me Thomas Giacardi.
While France and most European countries have implemented legislation allowing a transgender person to change marital status, the principality has no provision of this nature.
“It is a happy decision, all the more remarkable in a traditionally conservative country where Catholicism is the state religion,” supports the council.
An unprecedented request in Monaco
The request had been made by a person born a woman in 2000 but who, at the age of 4, had become aware of being male.
Since 2020, a process of physical transformation had been initiated.
Also having French nationality, his marital status had already been able to be modified with the French courts.
Monegasque justice had never been seized of a similar request with the exception, in 2017, of a request from the parents of a young child but which then only concerned a change of first name, and not gender.
The judge had then accepted the replacement of the original male first name by a first name of neutral use.
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