The government came up with a proposal more than a year ago, which was that children should be allowed to change gender in the CPR register from boy to girl or vice versa. Regardless of age. Today you have to be 18 years old to get a legal gender reassignment.
The Radicals’ equality rapporteur, Samira Nawa, is astonished.
– It is a pity, because when the government presented the proposal, there was a majority, and many were enthusiastic. Especially the children who, when they go to the doctor, for example, are greeted with why they look like a girl when they are a boy on their CPR number, Nawa tells Ritzau.
– These were the children we wanted to help, and these are the children who are experiencing a huge failure on the part of the government when they are now being pulled ashore, she says.
According to Jyllands-Posten, the reason for the government’s hesitation is a note from the Danish Council of Ethics, where there is no agreement among the 17 members on where the minimum age should be set.
A large majority in the council wants to lower the minimum age. But unlike the government, according to Jyllands-Posten, most members of the council will have a limit of 10-12 years.
Nawa does not understand that the government is pulling ashore.
– I am convinced that the government has thought well and thoroughly about when it made this proposal. At least that was my impression, and we had a really good talk and dialogue about it, she says.
Nawa sees the proposal as good as buried now.
– We have been kept under the corona, where we were told that there was a lot of other things the government was busy with, and all of a sudden this message comes when the corona can no longer be used as an excuse.
– So I can not help but think whether this means that it is completely buried and that the government has turned on a plate on this issue, says Nawa.
In addition to the Radicals, the other support parties Enhedslisten and SF were also prepared to look at the minimum age for legal gender reassignment.
The Unity List’s gender equality spokesperson, Pernille Skipper, is very dissatisfied with the government’s decision.
– I simply do not know what’s going on. I was so proud that the government would remove the age limit for legal gender reassignment.
– This of course gives rise to debate, and it also knew that well at the time, says Skipper to Jyllands-Posten.
However, there is praise for the government from Nye Borgerlige’s children’s spokesperson, Mette Thiesen.
– Good that the government seems to have got cold feet. When you are a child, you do not decide your own bedtime, so of course you should not be able to change gender legally either. What you do when you turn 18, you have to change – but let children be children, Thiesen writes on Twitter.
Later on Wednesday, SF’s gender equality spokesperson, Astrid Carรธe, will demand that Minister of the Interior Kaare Dybvad (S) answer the topic in the Folketing Hall when there is question time with the government ministers.
– It is not many months ago that the government agreed that it was still the government’s position that it wanted legal gender reassignment without an age limit. We have to talk to the government about this, because it is an annoying reversal, says Carรธe.
Source: The Nordic Page