SD tries to stop the sex-change law – threatens revenge if it passes

Published 5 April 2024 at 11.30

Domestic. The new gender reassignment law may have consequences for the Tidö collaboration. The Sweden Democrats are threatening to fight back on other issues. At the same time, the party is now trying to get the law deported.

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– We will push our line. In the past we have tried to reconcile, but if these are important issues for us, we have now received in black and white that it is okay to go our own way and break the cooperation, says SD's Carina Ståhl Herrstedt to SvD.

< p>On Friday, SD announced that they are invoking paragraph five of the Riksdag's eleventh chapter on deportation. The party believes that the bill needs to be prepared again in the committee so that all parties get the chance to revise their positions.

– It is clear that there is great disagreement within several major parties on this issue. Not least when Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson finally chose to leave comments on the age limit proposed in the bill, says SD's group leader Linda Lindberg in a press release.

For a deportation to be approved, at least one third of the members of parliament present need vote for the claim.

– We want to give all parties the chance to come to their senses and review this bill again. To all the members of parliament who oppose the gender identity law, we want to say that a deportation would give them another opportunity to drive internal opinion in their respective parties and hopefully stop this law in its current form before it is too late, says Linda Lindberg.

Only SD and KD are officially against the new sex-change law, which will be pushed through with the help of the left-wing opposition.

Within the Moderates, however, there is very strong opposition to the proposal, and also S members like Annika Strandhäll wants to stop it.

The vote in the Riksdag is scheduled to take place on April 18, provided that the law is not re-exiled according to SD's wishes. For the amendment to the law to be stopped in a vote, 84 members must vote against their party line, which would be a unique event in modern Swedish politics. So it would not even be enough if all 68 M members revolted against the party leadership.