The U.K. government discriminated against a transgender woman when she was denied receiving her state pension upon reaching age 60, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.

The woman, identified as MB, who was born male in 1948, began living as a woman in 1991 and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1995. She applied to receive her state pension in 2008 at age 60 — the legal age for women born before April 6, 1950 — but was denied her request because she had not annulled her marriage, which was required for her to receive a full certificate of gender change recognition. Read more via Politico