In July 2008, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that a transsexual person who transitioned to female, after having been married to a woman for more than 50 years, could remain married to her wife and change her legal gender to female.
2008年7月，德國聯邦憲法法院判決表示，一個已經變性成女性，但已經和女人結婚長達50年以上的變性人，可以繼續維持他和太太的婚姻關係，同時也能將其法律上的性別更改為女性。