Spanish transsexual bags widow pension
Spanish transsexual bags widow pension
A transsexual has won a ten-year-long battle to receive a widow's pension after she was repeatedly denied the right to one for not having had any children with her de facto partner.
María Rosa V.G. has been involved in a long legal battle with Spanish authorities since her long-term common law partner died in 2003.
Having been repeatedly denied a widow’s pension on the basis that the couple didn't have any children together, María Rosa decided to take the matter to Spain’s Constitutional Court.
María Rosa, who underwent a sex change in 1997, argued she wasn't being treated fairly or equally, keeping in mind that she can’t physically have children.
Under Spanish law, a widow or widower is entitled to his or her common law partner's pension as long as they were together for six years and have children in common.
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