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  • ‘Changing gender should be as easy as changing car numberplate’ (Sweden)

    05/13/2013 4:08:24 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 25 replies
    EU Observer ^ | 13.05.13 @ 00:09 | Honor Mahony
    Next week, the Swedish parliament is expected to pass a law abolishing a requirement for people changing their legal gender to be sterilized. The move follows a high level and at times bitter debate about a four-decade old law that pitted equality activists against conservative politicians. The activists argued that the 1972 law—making Sweden one of the first countries in the world to allow legal gender change—breached human rights. Opponents objected to possible situations where a person born as a woman, changes her legal identity to become a man, then gets pregnant. … For transgender people everywhere, Argentina currently sets...