Challenging the Netherlands' Transgender Rights LawSeptember 23, 2011
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Transgender rights are getting some attention in the Netherlands, where there's a push to amend a law that requires people to have surgery and become sterilized in order to officially change their gender. With HRW's Boris Dittrich and Thomas Wormgoor, who works with the Transgender Network in the Netherlands.

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  • Chiel, Jamie, and Marvin with his boxing trainer Izi. From: Inside Out / Portraits of Cross-gender Children by Sarah Wong. Inside Out is a collaborative project in the Netherlands involving photographer Sarah Wong and Volkskrant journalist Ellen de Visser who documented the lives of transgender children, over a period of seven years.
    © 2010 Sarah Wong
Transgender rights are getting some attention in the Netherlands, where there's a push to amend a law that requires people to have surgery and become sterilized in order to officially change their gender. With HRW's Boris Dittrich and Thomas Wormgoor, who works with the Transgender Network in the Netherlands.

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