Sex reassignment surgery

Neither gender-affirming hormone therapy nor sex reassignment surgery is available in Albania, meaning transgender Albanians like Fiona face having to self-medicate or travel to North Macedonia, Serbia or Turkey. The costs, financial and psychological, can be huge.

“Pornography & content expressing sexuality or promoting gender identity, gender reassignment & homosexuality should not be accessible to persons under 18 years old”

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR ruled against Romania on Tuesday for failing to satisfy of two transgender citizens' requests for recognition of their gender identity and asking them to "furnish proof that they had undergone gender reassignment surgery".

A Finnish woman who underwent hormonal therapy has become the nation's first transgender man to give birth, local media said Wednesday, triggering controversy as laws require infertility to change gender, AFP reports.

By Paul McHugh *

The Greek Orthodox Ecclesiastic Synod called on the country’s politicians to rise to their responsibility and mission and withdraw the bill on gender change.

Veteran Greek footballer and Euro 2004 champion Vasilis Tsiartas posted a comment on his Facebook page regarding the law on gender change at the age of 15 causing an online uproar. “I hope the first sex changes to happen will be for the children of those who voted for this disgrace.

A five-year-old Australian child born genetically male will be able to grow up as a female following a family court’s ruling to permit her sex-change surgery.
As Family Court documents show, the little girl identifies herself as a girl even though she does not have female reproductive organs.

A Turkish transsexual woman, who was a soldier before living as a woman, died following gender reassignment surgery in a hospital in the southern province of Antalya on Jan. 20, according to reports.

A panel organized by Iranian LBGTs was held on June 26 as a part of the annual Istanbul LGBTI Pride Week, bringing the problems of gays, lesbians, trans and intersex people in Turkey’s eastern neighbor to the table.