The largest financial center of Asia — Hong Kong — was more progressive than the People\’s Republic of China as a whole. For the sake of marriage, a man with a transsexual Special Administrative Region Government will change the existing law.
Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled that the current law is too rigid and «unconstitutional» for the two lovers, according to Russian Service BBC.
The Marriage Act, which acts on the territory of Hong Kong, permits to enter the union between a man and a woman. Shemale couple consisting of a man who succeeded-to-female and male, left to his own, tried to get married twice. In 2010 the refusal of Chinese officials was based on the birth certificate, in which the sex transsexual still was designated as a male, although the operation was carried out over five years ago. According to the laws of Hong Kong any changes to this document shall not be permitted.
But after the filing of the complaint in the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong practically decided the fate of loved ones in their favor. The court found that the marriage law — unconstitutional. However, the judge ordered postponed by 12 months of entry into force of the court decision that the government can make changes to existing legislation. Four of the five judges supported the decision of the court, one voted against.
Relation to same-sex marriage in China continues to be negative, although the brutality against the LGBT community — it\’s rare for China, where remains a certain level of tolerance towards homosexuals. This attitude, in turn, is associated with one of the major religions in this country, Confucianism, which does not judge the relationship between persons of the same sex. Some sources even claim that the relationship between men in the past were all the rage in China, according to Euronews.
Some same-sex marriages already concluded publicly in China, although officially such a ceremony is not legally binding. In October 2012 in East China\’s Fujian Province held a public wedding 24-year-old man Lu Zhong and 20-year-old boy Liu Wan-Qiang. The wedding was preceded by a public ceremony again engagement between men, which they spent in Guangdong Province during the holiday Qi-si, the Chinese counterpart of the holiday Valentine\’s Day or Saint Valentine\’s Day, reports Melanidy.ru.
Homosexuality is not a crime in China since 1997 and since 2001 in the list of mental illnesses is not an appropriate diagnosis.