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Title: Sweden: Transgender actress mourns her "forcible sterilization"
Post by: Shana A on November 02, 2011, 08:59:12 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 02, 2011, 08:59:12 AM
Sweden: Transgender actress mourns her "forcible sterilization"
Many countries typically seen as progressive on LGBT rights continue to mandate the practice.
Ann TornkvistNovember 2, 2011 06:19
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/111101/sweden-transgender-LGBT-gay-lesbian-bisexual-sterilization (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/111101/sweden-transgender-LGBT-gay-lesbian-bisexual-sterilization)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Aleksa Lundberg remembers being 4 years old and standing by the kindergarten's wading pool. The teachers began separating the children into groups for an autumnal walk through the nearby woods, ushering boys to one side, girls to another. Lundberg remembers being unsure which side to choose.
"I knew that I was expected to join the boys, but equally I knew that I wanted to join the girls," Lundberg says.
[...]
More than two decades later, Lundberg is a dramatic voice in a larger struggle against authority — the Swedish legal requirement that people who want to officially change their sex with the government must be be sterilized first. The law also forbids the freezing of sperm or eggs before corrective surgery, which effectively means transgender Swedes are barred from having biological children.
Many countries typically seen as progressive on LGBT rights continue to mandate the practice.
Ann TornkvistNovember 2, 2011 06:19
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/111101/sweden-transgender-LGBT-gay-lesbian-bisexual-sterilization (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/111101/sweden-transgender-LGBT-gay-lesbian-bisexual-sterilization)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Aleksa Lundberg remembers being 4 years old and standing by the kindergarten's wading pool. The teachers began separating the children into groups for an autumnal walk through the nearby woods, ushering boys to one side, girls to another. Lundberg remembers being unsure which side to choose.
"I knew that I was expected to join the boys, but equally I knew that I wanted to join the girls," Lundberg says.
[...]
More than two decades later, Lundberg is a dramatic voice in a larger struggle against authority — the Swedish legal requirement that people who want to officially change their sex with the government must be be sterilized first. The law also forbids the freezing of sperm or eggs before corrective surgery, which effectively means transgender Swedes are barred from having biological children.