A proposed bill to Lithuania’s Civil Code, led by the chairman of the Committee on Health Affairs, would ban gender reassignment surgery in the country, is mostly an attempt to escape the state’s self-declared right to discriminate against transgender people. If parliament approves the ban, “the state will be protected from any preconditions which create grounds for the appearance of claims against Lithuania at the European Court of Human Rights,” such as that time in 2007 when, UK Gay News reports, “Lithuania lost a case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerning a transsexual’s right to gender reassignment.” Funny coming from a country with trans kids dolls.
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The Lithuanian Lawmakers Who Want To Ban Gender Reassignment Surgery
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The sane Francis
Wouldn’t this law just be ruled unconstitutional down the line? In any case, these Eastern Euro countries have seen some progress, but the governments of many of these countries are still doing their damndest to enshrine discrimination against gays as a part of the fabric of their nations. It’s going to take a long time and cleansing of the garbage that has infected the minds of so many of these citizens for things to fully change.