Class Action Lawsuit To Make Sweden Pay For Decades of Forced Sterilization Of Trans

Its Payback Time in Sweden!
[VIA TGEU'S TRANS-INFO-EUROPE EMAIL LIST]

"A coalition of Sweden's LGBTQ and Trans* organizations have joined forces to bring justice to Trans* and Gender Variant people in Sweden. In an outstanding class action law suite under the leadership of civil rights attorney Kerstin Burman the Swedish Government will finally have to face the cost for the forced sterilizations of Trans* and Gender Variant Swedish citizens who for decades have to undergo sterilization and in order to enjoy the basic human right have their gender legally recognized."

"Attorney Kerstin Burman will represent the claims of well over 100 victims of forced sterilization in Sweden. The Swedish Government has as a result of an earlier legal action accepted to pay compensation to the victims of forced sterilization between 1935 and 1975. The victims were mainly Roma and Traveler women as well as persons with disabilities and single unmarried women with low income. I'm proud to say that I'm joining my fellow Trans* and Gender Variant victims in this legal battle. Finally the time has come for the Sweden to pay for decades of injustice and human rights violations to our people!"

Ms. Maria Sundin
BSc SW

Member of the Board RFSL - the National Federation for LGBT Rights
Co-chair Transgender Europe
WPATH Membership Committee
Global Forum for MSM and HIV - Transgender Reference Group

[11/7/2012]

Source: Yahoo group transgender news message 76395

"In Sweden most transgender individuals are denied the right to change their legal gender. Under the provisions of the present law, Lagen om fastställelse av könstillhörighet i vissa fall ( SFS 1972: 119) only those individuals who have undergone treatment by one of the six regional gender teams will be granted the right to change their birth gender.

According to this law the applicant must be a Swedish citizen, unmarried and sterile and above the age of 18. With the application a statement by the treating psychiatrist must be submitted that the patient meets the criteria in WHO ICD-10 F.64.0 and that this condition has prevailed since the patients youth. This is in effect a stricter diagnostic criteria than that present in the ICD-10." - Transgender Health Sweden

Incredibly, today's enlightened Europe is still the dark ages for trans people as 17 countries STILL require sterilization before one's gender identity is officially recognized.

This is nothing less than genocide.

 AutoStraddle Feb 2012

I Was ReTweeted By MTV

 

I Was  Retweeted by MTV who I retweeted in a obvious self promotional name dropping stunt. Reminds me of Dire Straights (another name drop)  I can't stop..... I need it for free...

MTV:: Against Me! Share Details of “Killer” New Album 

WHATS ALL THIS NAM$E DROPPING ABOUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?

Just the hottest fucking licks to hit in YEARS!

Barack Obama Is Reelected! LGBT Progresives Win National Agenda

From: Barack Obama to Kelli Busey

"How this happened"

I'm about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.

I want you to know that this wasn't fate, and it wasn't an accident. You made this happen.
You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn't easy, you pressed forward.

I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.

But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.

Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.

There's a lot more work to do.

But for right now: Thank you.

Barack



Via Al Jazeera "Barack Obama storms to second term"

Barack Obama has won the US presidential election, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

The incumbent president has captured at least 303 electoral votes - more than the majority of 270 required for victory in Tuesday's quadrennial election.

During his victory speech in Chicago, Obama said that "the task of perfecting our union moves forward".

"We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation," he said. "We know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come."

All I can say is thank god. Thank God for Obama, the man who has directed this country on a progressive path, the man who told the Social Security Department to stop harassing my employer because Ohio refuses to amend trans people's birth certificates, thank god that I can keep this job I have fought so hard for.

Thank god for America.

TVC Throws *Bibles In Attack Against Transgender Teachers.

*Unread Bibles

The "Traditional Values Coalition" (TVC)fearful of losing presence in Congress has come out swinging wildly against our allies in both Houses.

TVC Press Release: ENDA Hurts Kids: "H.R. 1397/S. 811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), is radical legislation that hurts kids and forces schools to hire or retain transgendered teachers in every school district in America -- granting them protected minority status. ENDA is also a clear violation of the religious liberties and rights of conscience of Christian business owners."

  Lies, misinformation and hate mongering. The truth about HR1397.

1. ENDA does not 'force' anyone to hire transgender people, it only disallows discrimination based on our gender expression and identity. The most qualified will continue to be hired and retained.

2. ENDA does not violate religious liberties, it protects all religions as it should.

Miss Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) spokesperson Andrea Lafferty, here's the dictionary definition of Inapplicable  which is what ENDA is to religious institutions.

3. The..."conscience of Christian business owners".. who actually read the Bible will be positively affected by ENDA. The Bible speaks about transgender people three times affirming us as gods children. God did. Jesus Christ did and after Jesus ascension to heaven the Holy Spirit acted directing a conservative pastor to baptize a black transgender person so others would know.

ENDA only affects people with boundless hatred, obviously not Christian people.

This is clearly a malicious attack not by a follower of Christ but by a very evil, evil person.

"True The Vote" Training THUGS to Target Trans As Fraudulent Voters

The image to the left was distributed as a teaching aid to "True The Vote" poll watchers thugs who were instructed to be on the look out something that doesn't seem right....... nudge, nudge them transsexuals ya know ha ha snort gimme another beer partecting OurMerica makes me thursty burrrp.



According to Mara Keilsing,  NCTE Executive Director “It is disgraceful that True the Vote would try to thug anyone into not voting. True the Vote’s true agenda is a shameful attempt to scare trans people away from participating in our democracy.”

In case you are challenged, be prepared by bringing NCTE’s “Voting While Trans Checklist” with you when you vote. The Checklist includes a message from NCTE to poll workers clarifying possible questions they may have about your identification.


If a poll worker or poll watcher attempts to deny you a ballot, call the National Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) immediately.

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ABC's "Hit and Miss" Dumps On Transgender Again. But This Time It's Our Moms They Attack.

It takes contemptuous awareness of a minorities sensitivities to do the damage ABC tried to do with Work it and continues to do with Hit and Miss down under.

And it keeps getting worst by the episode.

From Australian Broadcasting Cooperation, ABC2, more pain.

Episode Synopsis
Episode 2 9:30pm Monday, November 12 2012:
"Riley (Karla Crome) reluctantly agrees for Mia (Chloe Sevigny) to take Leonie (Roma Christensen) to a ballet class. Surrounded by real mothers Mia feels out of place."

My take on episode 2....Of course Mia would feel out of place, maybe even embarrassed to have her worthlessness exposed so vividly. How could she, a pre operative transgender pretender ever live up to the standards set by real mothers, dick or no dick?

Supposing we yank Chloe and put in someone else...

Episode 2
Riley (Karla Crome) reluctantly agrees for Mia (Michell Obama) to take Leonie (Roma Christensen) to a ballet class. Surrounded by real mothers Mia feels out of place.

My take on the rewritten Episode 2? Of course Mia would feel out of place, maybe even embarrassed to have her worthlessness exposed so vividly. How could she, a black woman pretend ever to live up to the standards set by white mothers?

The second scenarios not entertaining, amusing or even acceptable. Why? Because black people would burn your pathetic little ABC house down, that's why.

I think we should burn your pathetic little ABC house down for doing what you are to transgender people.

We are human beings of equal worth regardless of our plumbing just as cisgender people are. Treat us as such. Period.


You can convey your love of our moms to the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation using their contact form by clicking here.

The Australian Anti-Discrimination Board isn't taking any more complaints blaming it on a 'lack of resources. That's news to me. They were before when we recently complained to them about Tevor Ashley's play titled "trAnnie" which was subsequently appropriately retitled  "trAshley".