Slovakia: Surgery once again a condition for gender change – DW – 01/12/2024
Slovakia: Surgery once again a condition for gender change – DW – 01/12/2024
Slovak Health Minister Zuzana Dolinkova in November revoked guidelines on the gender transition process, which means that gender confirmation surgery is once again necessary to change gender legally in Slovakia.
Amy Zoyomi is a 29-year-old transgender woman from Lucenec, a town with 30,000 inhabitants in southern Slovakia. As an adult, Amy decided to move to the capital, Bratislava. Her gender identity was one of the main reasons for leaving her hometown.
For Amy, life in Lucenec and life in Bratislava are poles apart. "When I walk down the street in my home town, people often stare at me," she told DW. "Sometimes they stop, and the stares change to verbal abuse. That doesn't happen in the capital. I feel safe here, people are much more relaxed and don't pay so much attention to others," she explained.
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When will governments stop dictating what people do with their own bodies
Maybe the day when the people who elect government officials stop judging their neighbors and just love them for who they are. Tall order, though.
Umm they arnt they are simply dictating what can go on a legal document based on what people do with their own bodies
Which has further implications for their lives, such as being able to marry their partner without having to be medically sterilized by the government.
Live and let live.
Which is, again, just a government's formal recognition of the relationship. Why do people care so much about the religious rituals of the government?
I don’t care about religious rituals. I care about the legal advantages you get by having that recognised. I couldn’t give two shits about what the church does. That is in my eyes completely irrelevant to the state apparatus.
I believe the state IS a religious apparatus.
And until it creates new boxes to assign people in, there's the next best thing: https://github.com/pavoltravnik/tameMe
Welcome to Afghanistan then.
I give zero fucks what people do to themselves just pointing out the premise of the point being made was mute.