Healthcare of transsexual persons causes unnecessary suffering, Swedish study finds

In 1972, Sweden became the first country in the world to legislate healthcare for transsexualism within the state-financed healthcare system. In an international perspective, this was considered to be radical. It was expected that the life situation of people in the transsexual group would improve, now that state-financed healthcare was available for this group. New research from Sweden, however, describes this care as an oppressive gender-conservative system that causes suffering for transsexual persons.

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