Lithuanian Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis has suggested deleting from the Civil Code the requirement to envisage gender reassignment procedure by law. On 26 March 2013 the Parliament approved the relevant amendment for deliberation. It will now go to parliamentary committees.

Under the amendment, the Civil Code should contain the provision that „an unmarried adult person has the right to change his sex medically“, but should no longer stipulate that conditions and procedures of gender reassignment should be regulated by a separate law.

The Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis, who presented the draft amendment before the Parliament, said this would implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in L. v. Lithuania case, which put Lithuania under the obligation of adopting the Law on Gender Reassignment and pay compensation for the applicant. Lithuania has been lacking political will for the law.

LGL is of a position that the proposed legal solution is contrary to the requirement in the above indicated judgment to adopt general measures with the view of preventing violations similar to those found by the Court. The removal of the requirement to envisage gender reassignment conditions and procedures by law from the Civil Code would not only violate the principle of legal certainty, but would also place transsexual individuals in the legal limbo, thus fully blocking the possibilities of establishing a quick, transparent and accessible gender reassignment procedure in Lithuania.