During the spring of 2016 RFSL has been in dialogue with the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs that has said that they will present a bill about voluntarily paying compensation to those who have been sterilized as a consequence of the Gender Recognition Act. The ministry appointed a committee that will present propositions on how the compensation should be paid and what sum it should be. RFSL has met with the committee. Here you will find questions and answers about what happens next.

The eight people who are pilot cases in the plaint have given their stories to the court. They are published here as a whole, with fictitious names.

In 1972, Sweden introduced a law that made it possible to change a person’s legal gender. Legal gender is the gender marker that is recorded in…