International Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Partnership: A Comparison

While the domestic legal effects of civil partnership and marriage are almost identical, there's a significant difference in terms of international recognition. A Scottish same-sex marriage would be recognized in any other country which allowed same-sex marriage, because of the well-established international law framework for recognizing marriage. That's not the case for international recognition of civil partnership, which is more confused and irregular. A specific form of legal discrimination caused by the ban on same-sex marriage is discrimination against married transsexual people in the provision of legal gender recognition.