Tag: sterilisation
Trans Man Fights Japan’s Sterilisation Requirement
Revise Regressive Law Compelling Irreversible Surgery.
Japan: New Momentum to Reform Transgender Law
End Compulsory Sterilisation, «Mental Illness» Diagnosis
Japan: Compelled Sterilisation of Transgender People
Japan’s government should stop forcing transgender people to be surgically sterilised if they want legal recognition of their gender identity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Swedish Government gives symbolic compensation for forced sterilised transgender people
Compensation is a symbolic remedy for the fact that “In order to determine gender identity in some cases” until 30 June 2013, a requirement for sterilisation or lack of reproduction to establish a change in sex status was established.
U.S : Harmful Surgery on Intersex Children
Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said in a report released today.
New legal gender recognition legislation approved by Belgium!
ILGA-Europe welcome Belgium’s decision to put an end to the sterilisation requirements and the mental health diagnosis previously required in order to have access to legal gender recognition.