Reactie Vreerwerk op Wetsvoorstel Wijziging voorwaarden geslachtsregistratie Vreerwerk is enthousiast over enkele onderdelen van het voorstel en kritisch over een aantal andere. De kern van onze kritiek ligt in gebrek aan respect voor mensenrechten en autonomie van degenen om wie het gaat. Hun noden en wensen zijn niet genoeg gehoord. Ook zitten er enkele rare …
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Are the Netherlands about to abolish gender registration?
One might be tempted to think so, following the recent developments. First they liberalise the gender change legislation for trans people. Then the Justice Ministry orders an investigation into the issues with binary gender registration. Now an expert meeting will take place and conservative government party VVD calls for abolition plans to presented next year …
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Trans law in the Netherlands passed. Now what?
In the early morning of the 18th of December 2013 the Dutch Senate passed the proposal for updating the existing legislation of now 18 years old. It has been a long and bitter fight, in which some core demands have been realised, but it is not over yet.
Entanglements
This post highlights some nasty details hiding in the shades of the current Dutch transgender bill, as imposed upon Dutch trans people by obscure deliberations between the Justice ministry and the gender teams. Where informed consent on the one hand is the only criterion for LGR, the gender teams through a back door still have their say …
Legal gender recognition in the Netherlands – an update
As you may have seen on the social media already, or on trans mailing-lists: change in Dutch gender recognition legislation just took a big leap this afternoon of 9 April 2013. Already five years ago Dutch trans people contacted the minister for Emancipation (and Education, Science and Culture) complaining about the ridiculous and human rights …
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Dutch gender recognition bill: better but not good
Finally Dutch government is showing to take gender recognition legislation serious by publishing the Legal Gender Recognition Bill as soon as possible after ministerial treatment in the Council of Ministers. And also by acknowledging most of the changes trans organisations advised. However Dutch government is up to now absolutely not willing to fully depathologise and set an example and …
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