Tag: sterilisation
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Japan: Compelled Sterilisation of Transgender People
Japan’s government should stop forcing transgender people to be surgically sterilised if they want legal recognition of their gender identity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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Swedish Government gives symbolic compensation for forced sterilised transgender people
Compensation is a symbolic remedy for the fact that “In order to determine gender identity in some cases” until 30 June 2013, a requirement for sterilisation or lack of reproduction to establish a change in sex status was established.


