Dutch government apologizes for sterilizing trans people

Dutch government apologizes for sterilizing trans people​

27 Nov, 2021 20:44
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FILE PHOTO: Visitors in drag attend the "Pink Monday" LGBT funfair in Tilburg, the Netherlands, July 25, 2016 © AFP / Robin van Lonkhuijsen

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The Dutch government has apologized for a past law requiring that transgender people be sterilized to legally change their gender. The law existed until 2014, and similar laws are still on the books in some European countries.
“Nobody should have experienced what you went through. I am truly sorry that it happened,” Minister for Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven said in The Hague on Saturday. “Standards about what a body should look like do not belong in a law and a law should never force people to undergo an operation,” she added. “And today I make our deeply sincere apologies for this on behalf of the full Cabinet.”
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Between 1985 and 2014, the Netherlands allowed citizens to legally change their gender, provided they undergo genital surgery and are left sterile afterwards. The law was scrapped under pressure from LGBT activists, including Human Rights Watch, which described it as “needlessly traumatizing.”
Now, a psychological evaluation is all that is required to legally change one’s gender in the Netherlands.
Some 420 people claim to have been victimized by the law, AP reported. They have been offered 5,000 euro ($5,650) in compensation, an amount that activists at Transgender Network Nederland argue is too low.
The European Court of Human rights banned such sterilization laws in 2017, by which time they still existed on the books in 22 of the 47 countries that were party to the European Convention.
The court’s ruling did not mandate that these states change their laws, but established a legal precedent for court cases on the matter at national level. At present, sterilization laws still exist in Czechia, Finland, Latvia, Slovakia, and nine other countries covered by the 2017 ruling.
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[XANA]

They shouldn't apologize - trans people sterilize themselves all the time.

 

[Fentanyl Floyd]

This is an oxymoron

 

[kcbbq]

Never apologize to the woke mob.

 

[axfaxf]

This is like giving apologies to all the people never recognized as the real Napoleon Bonaparte. Bold strategy, but I´m pretty sure, it´ll bring the lulz. The troons will take this as encouragement. As they should.

 

[The Magnificence]

...the Netherlands allowed citizens to legally change their gender, provided they undergo genital surgery and are left sterile afterwards.

...seems perfectly reasonable to me...not clear on what the problem was.

 

[BlerdBjern]

...seems perfectly reasonable to me...not clear on what the problem was.

I think dutchland is covertly saying that they should have never let them get the gender surgery and instead forced them to accept that they are the gender that they are born as.

 

[Tovarisz]

I'm really puzzled as to how society got so exceptional that across the western world, the tail wags the dog.

Laws are written and erased to accommodate tiny percentiles of the population while everyone else gets the privilage of paying for it and being forced to not even tolerate it but love it.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Unless they banned puberty blockers and stopped the surgeries they’re still doing it.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I think dutchland is covertly saying that they should have never let them get the gender surgery and instead forced them to accept that they are the gender that they are born as.

They're just opening the floodgates for any troon to be able to call themselves a true and honest woman/man with minimal effort now whereas previously it sounded like if you wanted to make it official you had to go all the way.

 

[Kiwisee]

Doesn’t HRT and bottom surgery sterilize them anyway?

 

[Tovarisz]

Doesn’t HRT and bottom surgery sterilize them anyway?

That's the thing, it's not legally required to "become" the other gender anymore, that was gatekeeping and incosiderate of non-binary genderfluid transfolx. Just say what you think you are and bam, here's your new ID, go forth and rock your cock out in those female only spaces or whatever gets you off.