Topic: forced sterilisation

Read here the decision from the German Federal Court from 11 January 2011 striking down the sterilisation requirement in legal gender recognition. Case 1 BvR 3295/07 Press Release by the ...

The Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm has in a verdict from 19 Dec 2012 found the requirement of sterilization in legal gender recognition as unlawful and violating the European ...

European Social Charter Committee prompts member states over sterilisation-requirement   The European Social Charter (ESC) guarantees a number of important social and work-related rights. In its last national reporting cycle ...

WHO condemns forced sterilisation of trans and intersex people   The World Health Organisation has together with 6 other UN agencies (OHCHR, UN WOMEN, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF) spoken out ...

  RFSL Press Release Finally: Forced sterilizations removed from the Swedish legislation   Today, May 22nd, in the afternoon the Swedish Parliament voted to finally remove the mandatory legal requirement of sterilization for ...

TGEU Media Release 24 countries in Europe still require sterilization from trans people   For the first time TGEU publishes a Trans Rights Europe Map & Index. The map shows ...

Findings at a glance   The Trans Rights Europe Map reflects European countries’ laws and administrative practices which protect or violate the human rights of trans people. The Trans Rights ...