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AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I’ve heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren’t on the list). There’s few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the for open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.

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