Transgender woman wants apology from gov't over forced sterilization
NL TimesWillemijn van Kempen wants recognition from the government for the pain she suffered because she had to be sterilized in order to become a woman - something transgender people in the Netherlands were obliged to do by law until 2014. She along with 15 other plaintiffs, women's right organization Bureau Clara Wichmann and Transgender Network Netherlands are calling on the government to make public apologies, the Volkskrant reports. The Netherlands changed the law obliging transgender people to be sterilized if they want their gender to be changed in their passports in 2014, after a critical report from Human Rights Watch, among other things. In addition to apologies, the State should also offer compensation, a spokesperson for Bureau Clara Wichmann said to news wire ANP.