Nature versus Nurture: ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ before the Romanian Constitutional Court

Both authors contributed equally to the writing of this article. *Elena Brodeală holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute and an LLM from Yale Law School. She is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich in the URPP project ‘Human Reproduction Reloaded’ and an Adjunct Lecturer at Sciences Po in France. At the time of writing, she was also an Odobleja Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest. **Georgiana Epure holds an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Social Sciences Research Methods from the University of Leeds. She is the President of the Association for Liberty and Equality of Gender in Romania. She drafted one of the amici curiae briefs sent to the Constitutional Court in the case discussed in this paper and contributed to the writing of another amicus curiae brief concerning the same case. The authors would like to thank Dr. Michał Krajewski for his timely work as editor as well as the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. This work was supported by the University of Zurich’s Research Priority Program ‘Human Reproduction Reloaded’.