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.

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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