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Title: Norway: Legal gender recognition will become easy and accessible
Post by: Rina on April 12, 2015, 03:33:37 AM
Post by: Rina on April 12, 2015, 03:33:37 AM
Norway: Legal gender recognition will become easy and accessible
http://www.amnesty.ca/news/news-releases/norway-legal-gender-recognition-will-become-easy-and-accessible
April 10, 2015
An Amnesty International Norway Release
"During a press conference on Friday 10 April an expert group appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care presented its report "Right to right gender - health to all genders" to Minister of Health and Care Bent Høie (Conservative Party).
The expert group clearly expressed that the current practice for legal gender recognition is a violation of fundamental human rights, and stressed the need for change."
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This is excellent news; Norway has been lagging far behind on trans rights for years now, legally as well as medically. If the changes recommended by the expert group are passed into law and healthcare guidelines (and it looks like they will), we'll become one of the best countries in terms of available medical care and reasonable procedures to change the legal gender marker and so on.
http://www.amnesty.ca/news/news-releases/norway-legal-gender-recognition-will-become-easy-and-accessible
April 10, 2015
An Amnesty International Norway Release
"During a press conference on Friday 10 April an expert group appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care presented its report "Right to right gender - health to all genders" to Minister of Health and Care Bent Høie (Conservative Party).
The expert group clearly expressed that the current practice for legal gender recognition is a violation of fundamental human rights, and stressed the need for change."
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This is excellent news; Norway has been lagging far behind on trans rights for years now, legally as well as medically. If the changes recommended by the expert group are passed into law and healthcare guidelines (and it looks like they will), we'll become one of the best countries in terms of available medical care and reasonable procedures to change the legal gender marker and so on.