In the early 1970s, Sweden became the first country in the world to allow trans people to change their legal sex. However, it simultaneously enforced a strict policy of compulsory sterilization, on the grounds that such people were mentally ill and unfit to care for children: eugenics, pure and simple. The Swedish courts finally overturned this foul policy in 2012 – but, in the intervening forty years, the practice had spread to many other European countries, including France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia and
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