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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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Jaggony t1_j6td15l wrote

No doubt opposition in Scotland and the UK will continue but it's becoming increasingly difficult to argue that easing gender recognition is a radical, outrageous policy as country after country, including nearly all our immediate neighbours, vote to introduce it themselves.

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Jagueri t1_j6tdqd5 wrote

The previous law in Finland was particularly horrific, requiring trans people to undergo sterilisation in order to be eligible for legal recognition of their gender. Great news that this abhorrent requirement will finally be ended.

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Jahlons t1_j6tekjd wrote

The previous law in Finland was particularly horrific, requiring trans people to undergo sterilisation in order to be eligible for legal recognition of their gender. Great news that this abhorrent requirement will finally be ended.

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Iggitron90 t1_j6u9ii1 wrote

Well shit… that was a pretty draconian law in place, glad it’s been repealed.

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SilverNicktail t1_j6v78s7 wrote

People being allowed to live as they wish without being told who to be by everyone around them, imagine that.

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somewhere_now t1_j6wscue wrote

Replying to Dorocche (#1,696,281)

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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