On the issue of transsexualism, the European Court of Human Rights in "Goodwin v UK" and "I v UK" (July 2002) concluded that there is no justification for barring a transsexual from enjoying the right to marry. In "Bellinger v Bellinger" UKHL 21, (2003) Times, 11 April the English courts held that the non-recognition of change of gender for the purposes of marriage in s 11(c) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 was incompatible with Convention rights. But the House of Lords did not consider that the issues raised in the case were suitable for determination by courts and left the matter for Parliament, which has now enacted the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and matches the majority of European states in permitting marriage in the adoptive gender role. The same rights may be allowed in Australia, Canada, and some other states.