On 12 June 2003, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Van Kück, a German trans woman whose insurance company denied her reimbursement for sex reassignment surgery as well as hormone replacement therapy.
Evropski sud za ljudska prava je 12. juna 2003. godine doneo presudu u korist Van Kuck-a, nemačke trans žene čije je osiguravajuće društvo odbilo njenu nadoknadu za operaciju promene pola, i naknadnu hormonsku terapiju.