In Bulgaria, constitutional court interpretative decision states that the term “sex” in the constitution should be understood only in its biological sense

The term “sex” in the Constitution should be understood only in its biological sense, according to the long-awaited interpretative decision of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court (CC), which was called upon to resolve the issue of the concept of terms “sex” and “gender” in the country. [...] Bulgarian society’s sex/gender debate entered a hotted-up three years ago with GERB’s refusal to move the Istanbul Convention for ratification in parliament. [...] In 2018, the nationalist party launched a campaign that falsely claimed that the Convention would allow same-sex marriage and introduce a third sex. The Supreme Court asked the Constitutional Court to interpret the term sex/gender in March this year. Bulgarian courts have different practices on this issue, deciding cases on requests from transgender people to change their sex data in their ID’s. The Constitutional Court says that in the Bulgarian constitution, the biological sex “woman” is associated with the social role of the mother, with childbirth and with obstetric care. “The constitution does not create a gender that is independent of the biological sex,” the Constitutional Court stated.
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