Transgender rights: France scraps sterilisation in status law

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37653459

BBC News/9 hours ago
From the section Europe

"Gay and transgender activists have welcomed a new French law that lets transgender people change their legal status without having to be sterilised.
The activist group ILGA-Europe called it "clear progress" that "another European country has dispensed with the shameful practice of sterilisation".
But it regretted that trans people in France will still have to get a court to recognise their gender change."