The Supreme Court has ruled on Tuesday that it is not a violation of human rights for an inmate who has legally changed sex from male to female, to serve in a men's department. (Archive photo). Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix
Supreme Court denies trans inmate’s appeal
The Danish Supreme Court has decided that a transgender prisoner must serve their sentence in the men’s section of the prison, in line with their biological sex despite legally changing gender to female in 2015. The 63-year-old inmate is considered dangerous with a high risk of reoffending, previously convicted of severe rapes. The Court ruled that it wasn’t against the inmate’s human rights to be visited and provide urine samples in the presence of staff matching their biological sex. Their claim, including a request for 80,000 kroner in damages, has been rejected across all judicial levels and questioned the application of ‘gender identity’ versus ‘biological sex’ in human rights considerations.