Transgender progress in Norway?

[Stefan]

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you know how the progress goes in Norway?
I will probably be moving there later this year or next year but I'd like to get more information.
I live in Iceland now and I know the Scandinavian countries are all quite similar but since there's a lot more people living in Norway I'm expecting there to be a long queue for surgeries and stuff.
Also, what kind of T is available in Norway? I'm already on Nebido and I would like to continue taking it.

Please enlighten me if you can! Thanks

[Natkat]

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you know how the progress goes in Norway?
I will probably be moving there later this year or next year but I'd like to get more information.
I live in Iceland now and I know the Scandinavian countries are all quite similar but since there's a lot more people living in Norway I'm expecting there to be a long queue for surgeries and stuff.
Also, what kind of T is available in Norway? I'm already on Nebido and I would like to continue taking it.

Please enlighten me if you can! Thanks

the Scandinavia contrys are very simular but for transrights theres diffrence. Sweden is what I belive to be the best country to be transgender in, but I dont recomend any of those, even when I dont know so much about iceland and how it is there.

going official;
you find a doctor/psycoligist who live in your area to give you prescrition to go to rikshospitalet* (the norwegian hospital who will deal with transgenders). there you be for conversations to test that your transexual and get dignosed, later on taking homones and have the part to live by your desired gender before you can have surgery.
those can take years.

if your becoming norwegian citizen and want you gender marked changed, then you must be sterilized first.
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I would recoment you to contact GLBT in norway when you go there to ask for more information, also in case you wanna go "beyond the system" which is when you find doctors to give you hormones/surgery on your own.
people in scandinavia tend to do so cause it can be hard to get threatment officially, and in some cases if your denyed then there no other way.

[Stefan]

Thank you for the reply!

there you be for conversations to test that your transexual and get dignosed, later on taking homones and have the part to live by your desired gender before you can have surgery.
those can take years.

I've already been diagnosed in Iceland though and I've been on hormones for close to a year now. I was just wondering if I should stick around in Iceland for a few more months, have my top surgery and hysto and then move to Norway, because it does sound more strict over there. All I had to do over here was to see a psychiatrist a few times, live as my desired gender for a year and then I was allowed to take hormones. I was supposed to have my top surgery next month but the surgeon has been sued because of those PIP implants and he's probably not coming back to work -__-

[Natkat]

Thank you for the reply!

I've already been diagnosed in Iceland though and I've been on hormones for close to a year now. I was just wondering if I should stick around in Iceland for a few more months, have my top surgery and hysto and then move to Norway, because it does sound more strict over there. All I had to do over here was to see a psychiatrist a few times, live as my desired gender for a year and then I was allowed to take hormones. I was supposed to have my top surgery next month but the surgeon has been sued because of those PIP implants and he's probably not coming back to work -__-

as I said I dont know how they are in iceland, but they should be rather strick in Norway,
and theres only 1 place to do the surgery part so if your refused then theres not a second choice other than travel to another country.

I think you should do it if you got the change in iceland if you can. If you want more information I can try give you some norwegian contacts with transpeople to guid you since my knowlegde only is basic.

[Stefan]

I think you should do it if you got the change in iceland if you can. If you want more information I can try give you some norwegian contacts with transpeople to guid you since my knowlegde only is basic.

Yes, that would be great! I'd like to know if I would have to get another diagnosis in Norway if I want to keep taking hormones.

[Natkat]

Yes, that would be great! I'd like to know if I would have to get another diagnosis in Norway if I want to keep taking hormones.

okay, I will send you a pm, if I get back some informations from people who are more knowlegde.

[Lukas-H]

Whatever you do, don't go to Sweden. It is not a very good place to be trans right now. I don't know a lot about Norway's treatment options for trans people but I did speak to a native norwegian sometime last year and he told me that he did not have many issues with getting hormones (and I think he was planning top surgery) but like anywhere else the social transition was not always easy.

[Stefan]

Whatever you do, don't go to Sweden. It is not a very good place to be trans right now.

Do you mean because of the forced sterilization? Or are there more reasons why being trans in Sweden isn't good for transpeople?

[Natkat]

forced sterization is also in Norway and Denmark, and other places,
I belive Sweden to be the best option out of those 3.