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Children in Denmark and Germany 'scarred by surgery to normalise their sex'

“We’re talking about incisions being made to sensitive tissue, with life-long consequences, all because of stereotypes about what a boy or girl should look like.”

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May 10th 2017, 6:03 AM

# Wikileaks

Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike as US army agrees to pay for her gender surgery

Manning, famed for providing classified documents to whistleblower site Wikileaks, had been on hunger strike since last Friday.

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Sep 14th 2016, 8:53 AM