Gender Transgression as a European Value? The Role of the Court in Recognizing Human Rights
Izvleček
The paper examines gender transgression as a European val-ue, as part of human dignity and individual human rights within the scope of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. The paper also examines (1) Human dignity as an intrinsic value of an individual person; (2) Legal doctrine, le-gal arguments and legal interpretation as the means for applying certain concepts of human dignity; (3) Gender transgression and the right to self-determination as (part of) human dignity; (4) The role of the European Court of Human Rights in recognizing the right to gender transgression by applying different interpretative methods.
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