Sall Grover vs the Gender Lobby: The Women’s App That Sparked a Legal War (#40)

Denmark, Iceland and the Nordic debates

Denmark and Iceland are often grouped with the Nordic countries as socially liberal states with strong legal protections for LGBT people. Both have separated legal gender recognition from medical transition. Neither country, however, has produced the kind of national reversal in paediatric gender medicine seen in Finland, Sweden and, to a lesser extent, Norway. This matters because legal recognition, clinical treatment, women’s sport and changing facilities are related politically but are governed through different laws and institutions.

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