The Israeli Population and Migration Authority changed transgender father’s sex on ID card back to female without his consent, following the birth of his son. Now the state acknowledges that both of the newborn parents are fathers, but refuses to give a birth certificates that indicates it. Yonatan and Daniel with attorney Daniella Yaakobi A […]
The Interior Ministry of Israel refused to complete the registration of a baby born to a couple (one of whom is a transgender man) – and forced the man who carried the baby to change his registered sex from male to female. In 2009 Yonatan Marton, a transgender man, changed his gender from female to […]
Following a settlement agreement signed this week between the women’s organization WIZO and therapist Lee Reuveni Bar-David, WIZO compensated Reuveni Bar-David in the amount of NIS 25,000 and apologized for the cancellation of her lecture because of her sexual orientation. Lee Reuveni Bar-David (left) with Attorney Daniella Yaakobi “WIZO does not support the reasoning provided […]
About 20 mothers, together with the Aguda, the Israeli National LGBT Task Force, filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court against the Ministry of Interior following the Ministry’s refusal to issue new birth certificates for their children. “Interior Ministry clerks have no authority to refuse to issue birth certificates with the names of the […]
Israeli Courts for Family Matters ordered the Ministry of Interior to distribute a birth certificate to a child born to a lesbian couple, stating that the kid’s parents are “mother” and “mother.” Until today a child was registered in each of the partners’ ID cards, the biological mother and her partner, but there was no […]