Posted on 06/25/2015 2:50:09 PM PDT by markomalley
Children as young as seven would be allowed to change their legal gender under a bill proposed by Norway’s government on Thursday, one of the lowest ages for transgender rights anywhere in the world.
“This is an important area where Norway has lagged far behind many other countries for many years,” Health Minister Bent Høie said as he announced the plan during the Oslo Pride festival. “Now we can be proud that we are implementing this law.”
According to the Norwegian Health Ministry, most European countries only allow citizens to change the gender assigned to them at birth after they turn 18.
However, Richard Köhler, of the Transgender Europe lobby group, told Reuters that the “gold standard” was to have no formal limit, as in Malta.
“Generally it is very good to allow very young transpersons to have their gender identity respected,” he said.
Until April this year, Norway insisted that those seeking to change their legal gender undergo surgery, a practice which transgender activists argued was a violation of human rights.
According to Høie, children between seven and 16 would need to consult with their parents before changing their legal gender, after which they would be able to decide for themselves, without the need for a psychiatric or medical evaluation.
They would then be able to reverse the decision to change gender at will.
“The proposal is historic in that it will no longer be the health service but the individual who decides if he or she has changed sex,” Hoie said in a statement on the plan.
Sick.
pure insanity
“So little Bobby, what are you...”
“A firetruck!”
sick
The world has gone mad.
“Health Minister Bent Høie”.
I don’t know what a Høie is, but I’m not surprised it’s bent.
Norway should just give 0bama another Piece Prize.
No wonder people of European ancestry are joining ISIS. They are more ‘normal’ than the west.
(Not by any stretch anything more than a comparison of jerks from the west to psychotics form the east)
A seven year old’s attention span lasts seconds.
Why not let them make a life decision at seven. What could go wrong?
This is just nutty.
It doesn't seem to be a "life decision," more like deciding what to wear today.
Maybe Skyrim shouldn’t belong to the Nords Ping.
He used to be an adventurer, Like you. But then he took a scalpel where he pees.
Might as well. When the Muslims take over their country, the little boys are going to be little girls anyway.
God, what insanity. It's time to heap gasoline on it and get it to burn faster.
321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.
I blame global warming. And lutefisk.
Another country descending deeper into insanity.
Thalmor plot. They’re all metro anyway.
Kidding aside I have to think the real Nords of old are sitting around Valhalla right now saying to themselves “The Rainbow Bridge wasn’t about being a tranny much turning your kid into one!!!!”
Not really. Wandered would imply that it was an accident and clearly one has to make a determined effort to be this idiotic.
There used to be a comedian, I forget which, probably Sam Kinneson, that had a line about stuff like, things this idiotic, actually have to happen like magic. No one could just sit down one day and imagine it happening. It just has to spring into being in and of itself.
Madness.
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