64According to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, Article 8 ECHR protects a person’s sexual identity as a constituent element and one of the most intimate aspects of his or her private life. Thus, that provision encompasses the right to establish details of their identity as individual human beings, which includes the right of transsexual people to personal development and physical and moral integrity and to respect for and recognition of their sexual identity (ECtHR, 11 July 2002, Christine Goodwin v. the United Kingdom, CE:ECHR:2002:0711JUD002895795, §§ 77, 78 and 90; ECtHR, 12 June 2003, Van Kück v. Germany, CE:ECHR:2003:0612JUD003596897, §§ 69 to 75 and 82; and ECtHR, 19 January 2021, X and Y v. Romania, CE:ECHR:2021:0119JUD000214516, §§ 147 and 165).
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