That was decided by the Supreme Court of Cassation

Transgender people in Bulgaria cannot legally change their gender. That decision was made by the Civil panel of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation.

“The current law does not provide for the possibility for the court to allow the change of the data regarding the gender, name and uniform civil number in the acts of civil status of an applicant who claims to be transgender,” the decision states.

Until now, some Bulgarian judges assumed that the legislation in the country allows legal gender change, but only explicitly after a court decision.

The majority of supreme judges are stepping on the decision of the Constitutional Court from two years ago, which says that Bulgarian law understands gender as something that is determined at birth and exists only in the sense of biological sex.

Редактор: Маргарита Стоянчева