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I'm tired to be treated like a second
class citizen
I have just the same value as anyone else
Sweden has history of up being the first country
to have law that like
regulating how you could change your gender marker in your official papers
it's in 1972 that this law has been voted in Sweden
New evolution, 30 years later, in January 2013 : forced sterilization is revoked
for trans* persons
the researchers were forced to be sterilized to
in order to change sex legally
We couldn't save *** to have
children in the future and stuff like that. But now, we can
Now, there is people that actually know and
felt embarrassed that Sweden actually
had a law saying that you... you have to be sterilized
But Swedish associations are doing much more than only changing the laws.
There are trying to make evolve mentalities
and fight against discrimination on an everyday basis
Between 2009 and 2013, 77 complaint from
trans persons
had been treated and solved by the DO (discrimination observatory)
, most of them occurring in the work place or during healthcare
In Sweden, we have for many years now an enormous amount of
gender statistics that we base
much of our gender equality on
it had never been question before that you could make gender statistics.
and I know that different cultures
make jokes about Sweden that we are gender
correct or something like that weare talking
only talking genders and we don't have any all alpha males in Sweden
anymore and they are...
And that's right
No, it's not right because we still have gender
inequality. We aren't equal at all.
we have the same roles as the rest
of the worlds butI think that we're trying to handle it
in the public room.
There's been a lot of progress when it comes to
trans* issues the last four-five years
But when we... when we look at Sweden it's
and these questions are are
compared to other countries taking quite seriously
We'll make it easier
for the persons who are
identified as men and women to have the easy way to gender
equality because it gives you more freedom
to be the person you are