Today the European Court Of Human Rights ruled against Tukey's requirement for getting sterilized in order to have a legal gender change. The court deemed the need for medical intervention a violation of their treaty which states a person has the right to privacy. The plaintiff tried unsuccessfully for years to win a case in Turkey after going through all the psychiatric evaluations, but was denied his wish because he could still reproduce.

MANY COUNTRIES ARE WATCHING: Sadly, 20 or so nations in Europe require their transgender citizens to go through a sterilization process in order to be the gender they want in the government's eyes. Even very liberal countries with gay marriage, adoption, etc have abysmal records when it comes to the T in LGBT European trans activists hope that this ruling sets a precedence to outlaw this requirement once and for all.

A lot of work still left to be done: in some countries you need a mental evaluation and sometimes the specific doctors are in short supply like in Norway (only in Oslo) and other times you need to take hormones.

Hopefully in the future legal gender change will only require documentation and not medication.

That is so ****** up. Progress though

Progress is good

It's not a win from Turkey tho. European courts imposing their rulings on other nations like usual. Not saying it's not a great accomplishment but it has nothing to do with them.

Countries actually require sterilisation in order to have a sex change? Barbaric.

Exactly. I was apalled myself when I saw how many do that. Finland and a few others have been working on laws before this ruling, but let's hope it speeds up production throughout the whole continent.

There are a handful that don't allow sex change at all as well Ireland's about to finish a bill to do so, it's good the government dropped their defense but at the same time the case was before ECoHR so it might've set a precedent. I'll post a video soon on what it takes to change gender in most of Europe, it's very heartbreaking

Love that you post stuff like this because I don't see it on any other sites, not even in my newspaper

We have to work along LGBTQ org to claim these rights. It´s up to us. In Argentina we have the law since 2012, but it was after a long time of struggle, and with the support of our President.

"Having become the first country in South America to allow gay couples to marry, Argentina has passed a bill giving transgender citizens the right to have their gender recognised in law.
Hormone therapy and reassignment surgery will also become available by law for transgender citizens who will be able to change their officially recorded gender without prior medical or judicial approval.
The Gender Identity law was approved by the senate 55-0, with over a dozen absent senators and one abstention,
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is expected to sign the bill into law, having supported its passage."

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/10...-identity-law/


But I remember in times of Same-sex Marriage Law in 2010, LGBTQ members spoke to most senators. Some of them opposed because they were very Catholics.
Sometimes it takes longer, but that´s why it´s so important the VOTE (legislature & President)