The European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling on April
6, 2017 “in favor of three transgender people in France who had been barred
from changing the names and genders on their birth certificates because they
had not been sterilized.”[1]
I submit that the use of the term sterilization is misleading. Such a framing
gives the erroneous impression that human rights are at issue. In other words,
it is possible for a human-rights activism to go too far.
The full essay is at "Transgender Europeans."
[1]
Liam Stack, “European
Court Strikes Down Required Sterilization for Transgender People,” The New York Times, April 12, 2017.
