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Title: Sweden - Forbidden names: identity and the law
Post by: katia on November 26, 2007, 09:26:37 PM
Post by: katia on November 26, 2007, 09:26:37 PM
Sweden - Forbidden names: identity and the law
http://www.thelocal.se/9212/20071126/
11/26/2007
The law also brings problems for transgender people, as the rules make it hard to change the gender of forenames.
http://www.thelocal.se/9212/20071126/
11/26/2007
The law also brings problems for transgender people, as the rules make it hard to change the gender of forenames.
Title: Re: Sweden - Forbidden names: identity and the law
Post by: Seshatneferw on November 27, 2007, 04:20:17 AM
Post by: Seshatneferw on November 27, 2007, 04:20:17 AM
Quote from: Katia on November 26, 2007, 09:26:37 PM
The law also brings problems for transgender people, as the rules make it hard to change the gender of forenames.
Don't see why. Yes, the government has an official opinion on the gender of given names, but with the relevant paperwork (like a TS diagnosis) it doesn't really seem to be harder to do cross-gender name changes than in, say, the US. It just goes through the census bureaucracy, not a court.
The main point of the article really seems to be that the Swedish naming customs are different from the customs elsewhere in the world. With increasing globalisation this is a problem for more and more people; still, it's not immediately obvious what would be the best solution.
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