“The right to equality for transgender individuals... is a protected constitutional right, by virtue of the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom,” Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran wrote last week. “The protections of the right to equality do not apply only to those who have completed the sex change process: The social and legal difficulties with which transgender individuals are forced to contend are not dependent on how far along the physiological process of sex change is. The very failure to recognize the individual’s gender identity, as he perceives it, is a violation of the right to equality.”