Published 21 March 2024 at 15.29
Domestic. Ulf Kristersson has personally pushed for the passage of a new LGBTQ law that will make it easier to “change gender”. But in the Moderates' parliamentary group, the opposition to the proposal is very strong.
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– Ulf Kristersson clarified last autumn that it is very important to him personally that this is pushed through. But 80 percent of the Riksdag group is against it, says an M source to Aftonbladet.
The moderates and the Liberals have previously failed to get the Christian Democrats on board with their changed gender identity law.
Instead, the two the parties went ahead with getting the proposal through the Riksdag on their own with the help of the left-wing parties.
The planned changes to the law mean, among other things, that the age limit for changing legal gender is lowered from 18 to 16. The requirement for permission from the National Board of Health and Welfare for surgical procedures must also be scrapped.
“Members afraid of losing their assignments”
According to Aftonbladet's source, within M there is a “very large resistance” to the law, “both outside the party in the country and in the Riksdag group”.
The fact that M is still pushing the issue is described as a consequence of Ulf Kristersson's personal commitment. The Prime Minister has long shown a remarkably great enthusiasm for LGBTQ, something that has raised questions of a more private nature.
Already last autumn, Kristersson is said to have demanded that the Riksdag group stand behind him on the issue.
“Members are now afraid of losing their assignments if they defy the party line,” writes Aftonbladet.
Strandhäll emot
Even within the Social Democrats there is opposition to the bill, although only KD and SD officially oppose it. Among other things, Annika Strandhäll – who to some extent criticized the most extreme forms of trans rhetoric from a feminist perspective – is said to have tried to get her party to say no.
Strandhäll's criticism of the proposal has drawn criticism from party colleagues.
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– I am disappointed that she, in a rather irresponsible way, spread inaccuracies. Although it may be unconscious, Daniel Castro Vencu Öhrlund (S), a member of the Riksdag's “HBTQI network”, tells Svenska Dagbladet.
An S source tells Aftonbladet that there is “strong lobbying” going on in the matter from the LGBTQ movement and RFSL. Anyone who expresses a dissenting opinion on the “trans issue” risks being exposed to “cancellation culture”, according to the source.