Singapore has voided the marriage of a couple after the husband underwent a sex change, making their partnership a same-sex union that contravened the city state’s laws, a report said on Tuesday.
The couple married as man and woman in 2015 but the husband underwent a sex change operation and updated his national identity card to read “female”, The Straits Times newspaper reported.
But when the unidentified couple tried to buy a government-built flat, they had to inform the authorities. Married couples receive state grants for first-time buys of government flats.
The marriage was voided several months later, making them ineligible to buy the flat they wanted, the paper said.
Singapore’s Registry of Marriage said it would not give details on individual cases but cited the country’s laws which state marriage is a union between a man and a woman.