'Third-sex' fear cited to snip (sterilize) transgender Swedes *facepalm*
'Third-sex' fear cited to snip transgender Swedes
Two rogue MPs have asked their fellow parliamentarians to continue sterilizing transgender patients in Sweden, arguing that men who carry babies would result in a "third gender".
The Swedish government has proposed a law change that would allow transgender patients to undergo gender reassignment without being sterilized.
On Tuesday, two Christian Democrat MPs submitted a counter proposal, asking that their fellow parliamentarians vote against the government.
"The (government) proposal would have far-reaching consequences," wrote Tuve Skånberg and Annelie Enochson, who also published their argument in an op-ed in the Christian newspaper Dagen on Wednesday. A children's doctor and a psychiatrist were additional co-signatories.
http://www.thelocal.se/47120/20130403/#.UVxb3TegSSo
