Published 3 April 2024 at 14.52
Domestic. Known feminists such as Agnes Wold, Margareta Winberg and Kajsa Ekis Ekman are some of the 55 people who signed a petition against Ulf Kristersson's planned gender reassignment law.
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It is not only “80 percent” of the Moderates' own members of parliament who oppose the bill, which among other things should make it easier for minors to change gender.
Even on the left there is widespread feminist criticism of the new gender change law, which Ulf Kristersson is said to be trying to push through for “personal” reasons.
In a debate article in Expressen today, 55 people, including several well-known feminists and other profiles on the left, write that the proposal must be stopped.
< p>“Given what has emerged in the media about young people who regret their 'gender-affirming treatments' and today say that healthcare and society have confirmed their experiences too lightly, instead of questioning and problematizing, we wonder what the Moderates and Liberals (who push through the bill despite contradictions in the government documents and within the parties themselves) really deal with?” write the debaters.
They also refer to warnings from “the established women's movement” that gender-disaggregated statistics will deteriorate “if legal gender reflects citizens' perceived gender identity rather than actual gender”.
The debate article also notes that the proposal does not is democratically anchored and that even M's own members do not want the law.
“The party whip is harsh, but it must be said that it is unique that a government party rounds out its government base and pushes through a law without broad support among its own politicians and members. Even within the Liberals and Social Democrats there is clear opposition and support among citizens is weak. The proposal is thus not democratically anchored.”
The people behind the petition hope to “encourage all skeptics to defy the party whip at the vote in April”.
It is extremely unusual for members of Sweden's Riksdag to vote against their party leadership's line. Those who do, after all, are usually bullied as adults by their party colleagues and then poked at the next election. The normal procedure is for each member to press the button that their “group leader” tells them to press.