High Court Rules Gender Is Binary and Throws out ‘Non-Binary’ Claim

Published on January 18, 2024

An American man has failed in his bid to use the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to overturn British law to match up with Californian policy and allow him to be legally recognised as “non-binary.” Identified in the judgment as Ryan Castellucci, who works in cybersecurity and came to live in the UK in 2019, the claimant argued that UK law was in breach of his human rights by not granting him a gender recognition certificate (GRC) that lists his gender as “non-binary.” In his home state of California, Mr. Castellucci was allowed to have his gender listed as “X” on his passport, and argued in his case against the British government that he should be given the same rights in the UK after minister for women and equalities Kemi Badenoch blocked his request....

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