Finland is a very progressive country. So much so that the government has advanced a rule allowing you to change your legal gender every year.
The new law will enable individuals in Finland who are 18 or older to legally change their gender once per year via self-declaration, without the need for a psychological assessment or prior medical interventions.
Previously, people who wished to change their legal gender were required to undergo medical procedures and prove that they are sterile to legally “transition” into a different gender. The sterilization requirement of the existing law was intended to keep people who suffer from gender dysphoria from having children.
I can see why they’d want to drop the sterilization/surgery requirement. Very Progressive Democrat Party, social engineering. Something you’d have heard in the parlors frequented by the political left in the early twentieth century (practiced with enthusiasm by Lefties for much longer). But it does prove you are serious and want to demonstrate your commitment to transition. The adult (male, for example) gets their junk chopped off first. I’m not sure – at that point – whether a male or a female medical expert would be appropriate to examine you to sign off. You can’t just show up with it in a jar of fluid; it might not be yours.
But the practice would make gender-bending to access women in private or vulnerable areas less appealing. So, Finland’s not doing that anymore. They’ve gone to gender as fashion, but is that a good idea? Does it make any sense? I get that the popular narrative demands we allow people the right to modify their map dot on the mythical gender spectrum rainbow (at will), so Finland’s plan isn’t radical in comparison, but is what is gained better or worse for the stability of an individual or a culture?
The continued push for transgender ideology by left-wing governments comes despite the evidence of the devastating physical and psychological harm that so-called “gender-affirming care” causes. Many European medical officials have repeatedly warned about the negative health consequences of transgender surgeries and drugs, especially for children.
“The movement to promote ‘gender-affirming care’ is profoundly dangerous and driven by ideology rather than evidence,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, MD, chairman of the U.S. medical advocacy group “Do No Harm.”
Gender drugs can be lethal, and gender ideology comes with increased suicidal ideation. But gender transition surgery is a cash cow for hospitals, as is any surgery, elective or otherwise. A tack that runs contrary to everything the left has pushed about the community cost of care for the two decades. So they are hypocrites and liars, which is not a surprise. But as we’ve long argued, if you are an adult, and it’s your thing, and you pay for it, I know I could care less. Elective surgery means you chose it.
If you are an adult convincing a child, I think you are a monster. This sort of treatment, from drugs to surgery, might be a death sentence to those upon whom it is practiced.
I also disagree that, “[b]y passing this act, Finland has taken a major step towards proteLet’s trans people’s rights and improving their lives and right to self-determination.” That’s Amnesty International Finland LGBTI rights advisor Matti Pihlajamaa.
Let’s see where that leads us.
Recognizing that you might be a boy or a girl (man or woman) trapped in the wrong body, while rare, is at least feasible though suspect. You’ve got sex parts you can use on either sex to achieve pleasure, assuming consent as long as we’re talking about adults. Why all the extra bullsh!t?
You are advocating that being a boy or girl or something in between is likely to change at random, which means that individuals, through self-determination and gender transition surgery, could trap themselves in the wrong body, and that’s okay.
Why not just live with the body in which they were born? Is that what Finland is after? So, the rest of it is just a fashion statement. This year’s collection is … whatever. And maybe that sounds okay, but what about the other laws these so-called progressives promote – in some cases, demand? Randos are legally obligated to know how to address the spinning wheel of gender ideology, or they might be guilty of discrimination or a hate crime.
You can’t dovetail speech code enforcement based on the fake idea of hate crime alongside gender lotto. The result is chaos. Or is that the goal?
