Rail firms can’t demand to know customer’s gender, top EU court rules

Following a landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a French rail company cannot make it mandatory for customers to share their gender markers in order to buy a train ticket.

The judgement is likely to have a knock-on effect for all the other states in the European Union.

The case was brought in 2021 by the Mousse Association, a French LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation, against France’s state-owned railway company SNCF and its mandated collection of gender-related information.

The case focused on SNCF’s practice of forcing passengers to choose between the civil titles of “Mr” or “Ms” when buying tickets, with no chance to not give an answer or choose a gender-neutral option.

Mousse alleged it was discriminatory to transgender and non-binary people, and that collecting gender-identity data when

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