Slovakia: Surgery once again a condition for gender change – DW – 01/12/2024 (www.dw.com)

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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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[-] febra@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

When will governments stop dictating what people do with their own bodies

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago

Umm they arnt they are simply dictating what can go on a legal document based on what people do with their own bodies

[-] febra@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] febra@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] febra@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Welcome to Afghanistan then.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I give zero fucks what people do to themselves just pointing out the premise of the point being made was mute.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The pressure to revoke the guidelines obviously came from the nationalist right-wing Slovak National Party (SNS), which is a member of the ruling three-party coalition alongside Smer and Hlas.

In a recent interview, Environment Minister Tomas Taraba (SNS) expressed concern about the country, criticizing that "today's status quo in Slovakia is very progressive-liberal."

It also saw Health Minister Dolinkova's move as a violation of their rights: Gender confirmation surgery is not only a life- and body-changing intervention, it can in some cases lead to permanent sterility.

Iniciativa Inakost (Initiative Otherness), a Slovak group that brings together LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations, is adamant that political stability cannot trump human rights.

In its media statement, the initiative explained that the regulation passed by Lengvarsky before he left office had been based on "expert consensus" and follows the standard transition procedure.

After last year's double murder in Bratislava, a variety of human rights organizations came together and formed the initiative Ide nám o život (Our lives are at Stake).

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[-] ThompsonJr@lemmus.org -5 points 7 months ago

As long as they pay i see no problem :)

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

The problem is that it’s a painful, difficult procedure that not everybody considers worth it and it is sterilizing. I’ve had it, I’m really happy I did, but government pressure for it is pretty bad, especially when government recognition of your gender can be a matter of safety (it’s necessary to avoid being outed regularly)

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