European Court: Turkey Cannot Require Trans People to Be Sterilized

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European Court: Turkey Cannot Require Trans People to Be Sterilized

BY  Mitch Kellaway
March 15 2015 6:01 AM ET

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/03/15/european-court-turkey-cannot-require-trans-people-be-sterilized

Requiring proof of sterilization prior to granting transgender citizens access to medical or legal gender reassignment is still a widespread practice throughout the European Union and the broader European community — but after this week, trans people in Turkey face one less hurdle.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday in favor of a trans male litigant who argued that Turkey (which is not currently an EU member nation) could not legally deny his gender reassignment surgery on the grounds that he was still able to biologically reproduce, reports U.K. LGBT site Pink News.