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Rami
Aleksa Lundberg, Swedish Transgender Actress, Mourns Forced Steriliztion
Saw this article. Thought it would be of interest to this community. See link below. This seems to be truly harsh and cruel. I can see no justification for it. I wonder if anyone here can justify this or support it.
RAMI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/transgender-forced-...
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That seems like typical
That seems like typical conservative transphobia. They just fear, that being transgendered might be genetic and thus the best way to deal with it is to distribute non-lethal darwin awards to all transgendered.
Just read the comments to that story... It's rather chilling how intollerant people are with this gender issue.
"You're born one gender, changing it is a sin, god made you that way."
They're so sure they're right that it's chilling. Unbelievable what kind of shit you girls have to put up every day.
Beyogi
Swedish eugenics
Went on for a long time after WWII, but I wasn't aware they were still playing that stupid, evil game. I should point out that the Human Rights Act (and its EU equivalents) allows for variations in definitions of gender, and at the moment the UK for one may be moving away from a purely physical one, where you don't gets no girl certificate if you don't gets that chop, but the Swedish idea of banning procreation....dear sweet deity. And, yes, I got as far as the comment about sending us all to an island so that real people can be free of us before I stopped reading.
Arseholes.
You know, this idea honestly
You know, this idea honestly doesn't surprise me all that much. What did surprise me was that it was Swedish!
In the mid 1990s, the first
In the mid 1990s, the first endocrinologist I was referred to at the start of my physical transition was supposed to be the best in the region, and by the accounts of others that had sought treatment in the area, that was likely so. (Least bad option, anyway.) My encounters with her left me less than favourably impressed, though. At no point did she ever mention the possibility of freezing sperm. I decided I was done with seeing her the day I got a call from her office manager. It seemed a temp in the office had schedule a follow-up appointment with me for the next week, and I'd had the effrontery to accept. I was told that appointment wasn't available, and the next option for me to come in was three weeks away. I'd mentioned that I'd gotten the impression that the appointment book wasn't that full, and, in a comment reminiscent of the island view, I was told that the doctor only saw "your kind" one day month, so that her "normal" patients didn't have to share the waiting room with us.
After some consultation with folks on the net at the time, I ended up seeing a doctor outside the region for the rest of my transition, even though it meant a trip to see her every three months for a few years. At our first appointment, she handed me literature on fertility options and found a sperm bank that was local to me and strongly urged I consult with them in order to keep my future reproductive options open. As it turned out, it was a moot point, since I was sterile, anyway.
This is barbaric
as is the UK practice of requiring a couple, even those who have been in a long-term, loving relationship, to divorce prior to Gender Recognition.
S.
From a Swedish viewpoint
I just would add some points from the country in question
1. In wich country were there any laws describing and protecting the transsexuals in 1973? I think there were none.
2. Reading the pre-lawmaterial of that time, it is clear that the emphasis was on the protection of the childrfen in any relation to the transsexual, and NOT as some kind of evil punishment for the transsexual person.
3. There has been some tries to modernize the law during the last decade, but the proposed changes were not really that well done to be accepted by the Social and Wellfare Department. So it never came on the table of four parliament.
4. The problem with the law, today outdated in some ways, is actualisised every year at the Stockholm Pride Week so it will not be accepted as it is by the transsexual community here.
5. Sweden accepted transsexualism and the treatment as equal to illnesses, so the cost of the operation is covered by the General Insurance here. Another way to tell that we do have a good situation, although not perfect, here in Sweden.
Ginnie G
GinnieG