Greek 🇬🇷 parliament approves law 🔨 allowing legal gender 🌈 change

Greece's parliament has approved a new law that will make it easier for people to change their legal gender.

Citizens over the age of 15 will now be able to change their gender with a court ruling and without requiring a medical operation.

LGBT activists said the new law was an improvement, but criticised it for not doing enough to establish "full self-determination" for transgender people.

The leader of conservative opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said: "For us it is inconceivable to bar 15-year-olds from consuming alcohol, yet enabling them to take such an important decision."

In response, Prime Minister Tsipras said: "Absolutely no tradition, no perception of family calls for people to be sidelined or tossed aside into a social and institutional abyss."

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