those who in the years between 1985 and 2014 on gender and wanted to change, had to be in accordance with the law, to be sterilized. Sixteen of the transgenderpersonen requirements earlier on Monday, the government is making excuses for the afflicted and suffering. Also, they ask for a financial compensation.
take The initiative to Willemijn van Kempen, who is up for a sex change and chose despite the fact that they have a desire to have children was, according to the bbc news. “The State of my fertility taken away from them.” Van Kempen, and fifteen of the co-victims with their claims, assisted by the vrouwenrechtenorganisatie Office, Clara Wichmann, Transgender Network Netherlands (TNN) and the Netherlands organization for seksediversiteit (NNID).
Nora Uitterlinden, is connected to the TNN, says to NU.nl this was going to happen. “It was all the members of the community. That is Willemijn is also the reason for the next step.”
According to the organizations, approximately twelve hundred transgenderpersonen the same dilemma occurred. “We have already a few comments have gotten,” says Uitterlinden, “and we think it will be. We refer to the number of twelve hundred members, but is likely to be a lot more. Part of the problem is that, up to 1995, the geslachtswijzigingen have not been kept.”
join the conversation on NUjij, you, in the years between 1985 and 2014, generation has changed, or wants you to do it? In the late NUjij comments to know what you’re up against with this situation differently, and you can share your experiences as well. Transgenderwet was made in 1985 and advanced
In 1985 was approved in the Netherlands for the first time, transgenderpersonen in the law, and right at the front in Europe. The law, however, is the claim that if someone has a sex change to undergo, is also sterilized, it had to be. At that time, this requirement is not subject to debate, as it is in the law, it was just impossible to have a marriage between two people of the same sex. The children were able to have only one husband, as a father and as a wife and mother. As a parent, a legal sex contrary to biological sex, it was unwanted.
as of 2014, the Transgenderwet amended, and the requirement of sterilization) shall be deleted. From then on, it was a lot easier to be the gender in a birth certificate to be changed. “From that moment on, we saw a huge growth of people who have opted for a change in the geslachtsregistratie,” says Van Kempen. “The surgery was no longer required. That gave me the feeling that you have more to say about your own body.”
‘Sorry, can ease the pain’
‘ I’m not doing it just for myself, but also for all the other transgenderpersonen that the same thing has happened,” said Van Kempen at breaking News. “This is my life. This is something I need to do. There is something taken away from her. That is, we may never get it back. But an apology can ease the pain, I’m sure of it.”
The organizations are hoping to have a conversation with the prime minister, Sander Dekker, to Protection under the law. They may not have the amount in mind is the financial compensation. “That’s what it’s for in the first place, not to be,” says Uitterlinden on TNN. “We are asking for approval from the government for the pain, and to apologize for it. The compensation is only for the difficulty of this subject matter to give up. The Swedish parliament has, by 2018, self-responsibility, and a compensation system set up. At this time amounts to approximately € 20,000 to be paid.”
