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The tax authorities in Stockholm provoked women’s organizations with their new interpretation of gender: the Swedish National Tax Agency switched to a more gender-inclusive language in its quest to become “adaptable”, effectively abandoning the concepts of motherhood and fatherhood.
“We are no longer talking about mothers and fathers, but about the one who gives birth to the child,” Swedish tax agency business developer Ingegerd Videl told national television SVT, quoted by BGNES.
She cited the body’s legal guidance on births as an example. “The one who gives birth to the child automatically becomes his guardian. This applies regardless of whether the person who gave birth to the child is a woman or a man,” the guide said.
Asked if this change is easy to implement, Ingegerd Videl said: “It’s not that easy because you grow up with things being called a certain way. And then you have to think, ‘Now I’m going to express myself a little differently.’ . I’ll think more comprehensively. “But the more you start doing things this way, the easier it becomes.”
Why would the Swedish Tax Agency avoid the facts? Only women can give birth, “Swedish Democrat MP Jessica Stengrud wrote on Twitter.
This month, the Swedish government introduced a bill to make it easier for citizens to change their gender. If the bill is passed, changing the registered gender will be done primarily on the basis of preferences rather than medical evaluation, and will become as easy as changing the name.
However, the Swedish Women’s Lobby said the bill would undermine decades of work on gender equality. “I understand that self-assessment of gender identity is very important for a certain group and that it must be recognized, but I think that for most people in society and for us who work for gender equality, the biological body is important,” said the general. lobby secretary Clara Berglund in front of SVT. “This is a fundamental change in what gender is. Instead of talking about the body, we are moving to a more relativistic attitude,” she said.
Former Social Affairs Minister Anika Strandhel, chairwoman of the Women’s Social Democrats, called the bill “extremely important” and “well-balanced”, promising to vote in favor. However, even she agreed that there were “notes of concern”, and dared to suggest that the prospect of “complete elimination of men and women” would undermine work on gender equality.
The bill, introduced by the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs, will also allow children over the age of twelve to apply for a new legal gender in the national population register. In order to change the legal sex of a minor child, only the consent of the guardian will be sufficient, without requiring a medical examination or approval by the health authorities. Today, a change of legal sex requires a medical opinion, which can be done from the age of 18.
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