Introduction
It is not the Government but the judiciary who may again advance the case of LGBTI rights in Hong Kong. In 2013, the Court of Final Appeal ruled it unconstitutional for the Registry of Marriages to deny a transgender person, W, the right to register to marry her boyfriend. The Government followed up on the court order and submitted a Bill to LegCo last year to correct what the court saw as failings in policy. However, the Bill was voted down by most proestablishment members. Surprisingly, pan-dems also voted down the Bill believing it is unreasonably rigid in definition...