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"Honestly, what the hell is the problem?" says Swedish actress Aleksa Lundberg about the Swedish prime minister's refusal to apologize to Swedes who were sterilized in order to change gender legally.
Lundberg, a succesful actress who has performed on the stage of the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) in Stockholm, is one of several Swedish transsexuals who were sterilized to complete their sex change. Neither was she allowed to save any sperm before the operation.
On Monday, she joined a group of people who said they were demanding 42.6 million kronor ($6.3 million) in compensation from the government.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said that the government can't apologize every time a group wants an apology, but last time I checked there weren't tonnes of groups queuing up for an apology for being sterilized," says Lundberg, who is in her early thirties and starting to think about having a family.
In 1999, the Swedish parliament adopted a law granting damages of 175,000
kronor ($26,000) to victims of forced sterilizations under a eugenics programme that existed from 1935 until 1996. The law...
Lundberg, a succesful actress who has performed on the stage of the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) in Stockholm, is one of several Swedish transsexuals who were sterilized to complete their sex change. Neither was she allowed to save any sperm before the operation.
On Monday, she joined a group of people who said they were demanding 42.6 million kronor ($6.3 million) in compensation from the government.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said that the government can't apologize every time a group wants an apology, but last time I checked there weren't tonnes of groups queuing up for an apology for being sterilized," says Lundberg, who is in her early thirties and starting to think about having a family.
In 1999, the Swedish parliament adopted a law granting damages of 175,000
kronor ($26,000) to victims of forced sterilizations under a eugenics programme that existed from 1935 until 1996. The law...