The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons is the result of an international research project including not only national reports from 14 european and non european jurisdictions but also two chapters that look at legal sex gender changes from a christian perspective and one chapter from a medical psychological perspective. Cambridge core family law the legal status of transsexual and transgender persons edited by jens m scherpe marital partnership status and parenthood by 2008 divided by mtf and ftm figures . The legal status of transsexual and transgender persons the need to allow a change of legal sex gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions and for european countries there is no question as to whether such a change should be allowed after the decision of the european court of human rights in goodwin v. Given that transgenderism is acknowledged as a medical condition gender identity disorder public and legal perceptions of transgender persons are more lenient than in comparison to for example homosexuality same sex marriages are forbidden any type of cohabitation except marriage between men and women is not recognised by turkish law