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Swedish government to pay compensation to trans people who were ‘forcibly steril

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Swedish government to pay compensation to trans people who were 'forcibly sterilized'

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/27/swedish-government-to-pay-compensation-to-trans-people-who-were-forcibly-sterilized/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy   04/27/2016
 
"Public Health minister Gabriel Wilkström announced the policy
 
The Swedish government will shell out compensation to transgender people who were victims of forced sterilization, the country's public health minister has confirmed.

Until 2013, Swedish law specified that people who wanted to change legal gender had to be "lacking the ability to procreate". "
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