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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish parliament passed a rule Wednesday lowering nan property required for group to legally alteration their gender from 18 to 16. Those nether 18 still request support from a guardian, a expert and nan National Board of Health and Welfare.
No longer required is simply a gender dysphoria diagnosis, defined by aesculapian professionals arsenic psychological distress knowledgeable by those whose gender look does not lucifer their gender identity.
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Sweden joins a number of countries pinch akin laws including Denmark, Norway, Finland and Spain.
A position of nan Swedish Parliament arsenic lawmakers ballot connected nan caller gender personality law, successful Stockholm, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Swedish parliament passed a rule Wednesday lowering nan property required for group to legally alteration their gender from 18 to 16. Young group nether 18 will still request support from a guardian, a doctor, and nan National Board of Health and Welfare. The authorities of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has been divided connected nan issue. (Jessica Gow/TT News Agency via AP)
The ballot successful Sweden passed 234-94 pinch 21 lawmakers absent, pursuing a statement that lasted for astir six hours.
Sweden Democrats, nan populist statement pinch far-right roots that supports nan authorities successful parliament but is not portion of nan government, opposed nan law.
Jimmie Akesson, leader of nan Sweden Democrats, told reporters it was "deplorable that a connection that intelligibly lacks nan support of nan organization is truthful lightly voted through."
But Johan Hultberg pinch nan Moderates of Sweden’s blimpish premier minister, Ulf Kristersson, called nan result "gratifying." Hultberg called it "a cautious but important betterment for a susceptible group. I’m gladsome we’re done pinch it."
Kristersson's center-right conjugation had been divided connected nan issue, pinch nan Moderates and nan Liberals mostly supporting nan rule while nan mini Christian Democrats were against it.
Peter Sidlund Ponkala, president of nan Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights, known by its Swedish acronym RFSL, called nan law's transition "a measurement successful nan correct direction" and "a nickname for everyone who has been waiting for decades for a caller law."
Elias Fjellander, president of nan organization’s younker branch, said it would make life amended for its members. "Going forward, we are pushing to fortify gender-affirming care, to present a 3rd ineligible gender and to prohibition conversion attempts," Fjellander said successful a statement.
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Last Friday, German lawmakers approved akin legislation, making it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary group to alteration their sanction and gender successful charismatic records straight astatine registry offices.
In nan U.K., nan Scottish parliament successful 2022 passed a measure allowing group aged 16 aliases older to alteration their gender nickname connected personality documents by self-declaration. It was vetoed by nan British government, a determination that Scotland’s highest civilian tribunal upheld successful December. The authorities group Scotland isolated from nan remainder of nan U.K., wherever nan minimum property is 18 and a aesculapian test is required.
