Following a court’s decision not to issue marriage banns for a gender reassigned woman who was born a man, but was legally declared a woman following surgery, the woman has replied by way of a request filed in the First Hall of the Civil Court.

Last month, the Civil Court had ruled that the woman could get married, but after an appeal was filed by the director of the Public Registry, another court ruled the opposite on Wednesday.

The director of the Public Registry had argued that the surgery undergone by the gender reassigned woman was cosmetic and that, essentially, she is still a man.

In reply to the last decision, the woman stated she should not be prejudiced against, particularly since there were previous judgements involving similar cases that established certain norms in the law.

The woman declared that the fact that she had assumed the feminine sex “irreversibly” was valid for the purposes of marriage and in line with the Marriage Act, and the court should have had no reason to revoke the first decision of the Civil Court.

Dr Jose Herrera and Dr David Camilleri signed the writ.