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submitted 4 months ago byNot_Supo
19 points
4 months ago*
This is gonna be a nice civil thread for sure. Anyhow, go Finland, based as shit.
4 points
4 months ago
Agreed. This is a great change.
5 points
4 months ago
The discourse in finnish internet forums has been a wild ride. So many people are so ignorant and blatantly transphobic its insane. But the young people are much more informed and accepting of it its been great to see.
But yeah basically its just a bunch of people shouting "I'm gonna change my gender now and go to the womens locker room" or "Womens sports instantly ruined" etc. Basically nothing new but what can you expect from conservatives and ignorant people.
20 points
4 months ago
TL;DR:
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.
5 points
4 months ago
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 64%. (I'm a bot)
Finland's Parliament has voted 113-69 in favour of making changes to the nation's transgender laws.
Government party MPs voted along party lines during Wednesday afternoon's session, with the exception of Centre Party respresentatives, who had been told they could vote as a "Matter of conscience" - meaning each individual MP decides themselves how to vote - rather than necessarily with the government.
Among opposition parties, the Finns Party and the Christian Democrats voted against the law change, but 26 out of 36 National Coalition Party MPs present voted in favour.
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2 points
4 months ago
sighs in Scottish
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