The Kosovo-based Centre for Equality and Liberty (CEL) announced in a statement to the press that the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has ruled Blert Morina’s case against the Civil Registration Agency for recognition of gender identity to be inadmissible and premature.
In 2018, Morina had requested the Civil Registration office in Gjakova to change the name and sex in personal documents in line with his gender identity. Upon refusal to do so, Morina sued the civil registration agency at the Basic Court in Pristina and asked the Constitutional Court to interpret the legality of the agency’s refusal to change his personal information.
In the ruling dated 5 September 2019, the Constitutional Court found that Morina’s request was inadmissible for the fact that the case is already being addressed by another court and that based on the principle of subsidiarity, “the Court should initially enable regular courts to review the allegations of the applicant.”
Meanwhile, Morina has been invited by the Basic Court in Pristina regarding the above case to a hearing scheduled for 9 October 2019.
