The Netherlands formally apologized to trans and intersex persons for forcing sterilisation on those who wanted to see their gender legally recognised

AMSTERDAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Dutch government has agreed to pay about 2,000 trans people who had to undergo sterilisation to legally change their gender 5,000 euros ($5,993) each in compensation.

Until 2014, Dutch trans people who wished to amend the gender on their birth certificate first had to be sterilised and to alter their bodies, through hormones and surgery, to match their new gender….

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