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Hong Kong's top court handed down a groundbreaking ruling to allow a transgender woman to marry her boyfriend. 香港终审法院做出了一项史无前例的裁决，允许一名变性女子嫁给她的男友。 On Monday, the city's court of final appeal said that being transgender--someone whose physical and sexual characteristics may not match their gender identity--shouldn't stop someone from getting wed. The appellant, identified in court documents as 'W,' is a woman in her 30s who underwent sex-reassignment surgery in Hong Kong in 2008. 周一，香港终审法院说，变性不该成为阻止一个人结婚的理由。所谓“变性”是指，一个人的生理特征和性特征可能与其性别认同不一致。此案中的上诉人在法庭文件中被称为“W”，是一名30多岁的女子，2008年在香港做了变性手术。 In its 4-1 ruling, the court said it was necessary to protect the rights of transgender people. 'The greatest and most urgent need for constitutional protection is apt to be found among those who form a minority, especially a misunderstood minority,' the judgment ran. 香港终审法院以4票赞成、1票反对做出这项裁决。法院说有必要保护跨性别人士的权利。裁决说，那些少数人群总是最需要宪法保护，尤其是其中被误解的少数。 Furthermore, in defining marriage, the court said, it made no sense to 'adopt criteria which are fixed at the time of the relevant person's birth and regarded as immutable,' the judges wrote. To do so, they said, would be to adopt a 'blinkered view.' | 
