The Forum Zghazagh Laburisti, the MLP youth section, said this morning that it was backing Joanne Cassar, who despite having been given legal recognition as a woman after gender reassignment surgery, has not been allowed to marry a man.

The case is now before the Constitutional Court.

“We believe that a person recognised as a woman after irreversible gender reassignment should have a right to a civil marriage,” the forum said.

The forum said this was solely its own opinion, and it hoped the case would not need to end up before the European Court.