The protections afforded to transgender individuals under the Third Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war

Abstract

This dissertation examines the Third Geneva Convention and its updated Commentary released in 2020 by the ICRC. It evaluates its suitability to provide adequate protection to transgender prisoners of war. It offers recommendations to address the lacuna in the law arising from the limited academic research, knowledge, and practice regarding transgender individuals during international armed conflict by consulting multiple sources of international human rights law that provide a more robust framework concerning transgender individuals in detention.