'No Other Way': Transgender Woman Declares Hunger Strike Until Bulgaria Recognizes Her Gender

A transgender woman is staging a hunger strike outside a courthouse in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, after the country's highest appeals court ruled in February that Bulgarian law "does not envisage" legal changes to someone's gender.

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