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Finland Allows Gender Recognition based on Self-Determination, but...

February 2, 2023

The 19th Country in the World

Congratulations to all the activists who have worked hard over many years so that yesterday the Finnish Parliament adopted a new law for legal gender recognition based on self-determination. With this law, Finland becomes the 19th country in the world to allow legal gender recognition based on self-determination!

While we celebrate the advancement of the rights of trans people in Finland, the law doesn’t apply to people under 18, intersex people, non-binary people, and any other person with a gender identity that falls outside the binary.

There is still a lot of work to do, so that the rights of all our communities are protected by national legislation, but this is an important step forward. Read more on transfeminiinit's page.

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