Trans Iceland: “Your Girlfriend Was Never A Boy”

Trans Iceland recently released a video in which they answer some of the frequently asked questions trans people get asked. Topics range from microaggressions, transphobia, genitals, binary thinking, to when they knew they were trans and what that process was like. Check out the video below—it’s in Icelandic but has English subtitles.

The video originally appeared on Gay Iceland, an LGBT news site.

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NATURAL TRANSITION
On June 27, the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a landmark occasion for human rights took place in Iceland as a bill protecting the rights of transgender people came into effect. Already commanding a reputation of being a leader in social equality, the country joined a growing community of nations that are enacting laws to improve the quality of life for transfolk, including the UK, Spain, and most famously Argentina, whose law passed last May has been heralded as the most progessive to date. The new Icelandic law puts in place a simpler process for people to go through gender transition medically, change their official documents, keep their families intact and reinforces their right to equal treatment under the human rights act.

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Iceland is known for its liberal attitude towards gay people—it was in fact the first European country to recognise same-sex unions in 1996 and adoption by gay people in 2006, and then it was the first to elect an openly gay head of state in 2009. But how does Icelandic society respond to transgender people? Is it just as supportive?