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Transgender people no longer required to undergo sterilization in France
Transgender people in France can now legally change their gender without undergoing sterilization, under legislation that was passed this week. As the Thomson Reuters Foundation reports, the move was welcomed by LGBT rights groups in Europe, where several countries have passed similar laws in recent years, though advocates say France should do more to streamline the process for legally changing genders.
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I'm not sure I understand. Transgender people were forced to sterilize themselves? In France?
Have the French forgotten the 1940's? Because forced sterilization of people the mainstream doesn't like has happened before there. I guess we should be happy this has just changed, but the real surprise is that it wasn't like that before.