Compulsory sterilization and transgender reproductive (in)justice in Finland

Social insurance is mandatory for all citizens and determined through a sex‐based social security numbering system, whereby all babies assigned female at birth receive an ID‐number that is distinguishable from those assigned male at birth. Since no other option than F or M exists, many intersex babies have to undergo compulsory, cosmetic surgical procedures in order to fit into the binary gender system and receive an ID‐number.

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