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The Swedish administrative court of appeals has granted a 28-year-old Sandviken transsexual the right to be called Immanuel.
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That same couple also has a daughter named Aryan Nation. Nice, huh?
*it's open season*
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle6069848.ece
When I have a son I'm going to name him Sue!
Hopefully these two court rulings is a step away from "traditional" normative thinking and a step closer to less intervention from the state in these matters.
Please note that these court decisions are about improving grownup peoples right to name themselves. Not about parents right to name their children in any way they like. These are really two different matters.
The fact that the authority handling peoples names is called Skatteverket (the Tax Authority) does not mean that it is only dealing with taxes. It has other missions as well. Keeping track of people's names is one of them.
If a person does not go through the transsexual medical process, they will be refused by the Skat office.
The two people mentioned have not went through medical process's, so therefore are not transsexual. Most likely they are transvestites, trying to use a law for transseuxal people.
Journalists should check the legal facts in these cases before printing a story. If they journalist had, it would have been noticed that these people have not supplied the relevant medical/legal material to the Skat office.
If someone claims to be trnassexual, ask for proof, such as a letter from a clinician. A lot of transvestites claim they are transsexual when they are not.
Besides, the Swedish name law says nothing about transsexuals. Actuallt it says nothing about so called gender contrary first names at all. That concept has been invented by authorities and courts and has no support in the law itself.
You are talking about the law that regulates how transsexuals (and intersexuals) are assigned new official sex. That is another thing. Where in that law is it written about name changes? And why should that limit other people's freedom of choice?