11/10/2021- 7:23 a.m.
Swedes could be allowed to change gender from age 12
Sweden’s Ministry for Social Affairs published a proposed bill on Tuesday that would allow children as young as 12 to legally change their gender without medical examination or approval.
“When talking about changing gender identity in the population register, it deserves to be different from having an intervention on one’s genitals,” Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren of the Social Democratic Party told public broadcaster SVT.
Children would still have to wait until 18 to undergo gender reassignment surgery; a 2018 law attempting to lower this age to 15 was rejected, while Swedish Democrat MP Angelica Lundberg last year proposed raising the age to 25.
