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Doubly_Curious t1_j6saywu wrote

> The result means that transgender individuals can legally change their gender by self-declaration alone, without having to undergo a lengthy medical process — including a psychiatric assessment — as under the previous law.

>The changes will also see the abolition of a requirement that transgender people must be unable to reproduce.

>Under Finland's previous law, transgender people were required to provide a medical certificate proving they are sterile, in order to legally confirm their true gender.

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Dorocche t1_j6ss4fx wrote

Holy shit, was the sterilization actually enforced? What the fuck

Wonderful news that it's just self-declaration now.

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somewhere_now t1_j6wscue wrote

A trans person in r/suomi said that they were issued some medication that should stop their body from producing eggs/sperm (don't remember anymore if they were transman or transwoman), but it wasn't of course enforced in any way that they take those, neither was there any test that person is actually sterile.

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