A new law set to come into effect on July 1st will make it easier for Swedes to legally change their gender, with reports claiming that a single digital healthcare ‘visit’ will suffice.
Christian Democrats politician Christian Carlsson said it was “incomprehensible” that only his party and the Sweden Democrats tried to stop the legislation from moving forward last year, “and that this spring we were the only ones who tried to have the new law repealed before it takes effect.”
It is time for the other parties to wake up.
Sweden Democrat MP Richard Jomshof described the change as “madness, insanity, and folly,” while journalist Anders Gustafsson joked that it would soon be “easier to change your legal gender than to buy a bottle of wine during a vineyard visit” in Sweden.
The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) said in a release on Tuesday that an “overarching goal of the new legislation” is to make it easier for those aged 16 and above to change the gender recorded in the national population register.
Officials have agreed that doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists and ‘health and medical curators’ will be able to issue certificates for those who want to change their legal gender. A gender dysphoria diagnosis will no longer be needed in order for this to take place.
Carlsson insisted that the law must be repealed, but there is little sign of the necessary will within the establishment coalition parties for attempting to turn back the tide, meaning its introduction is likely to go ahead largely uninterrupted this summer.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
