By ČTK / Published 18 July 2008 Prague, July 17 (CTK) - The government working group for sexual minorities wants the bill on special medical services to enable sex-change treatment to start being applied to people under 18, Minister for human rights and ethnic minorities Dzamila Stehlikova (Greens, SZ) told CTK Thursday. The Health Ministry is to submit the respective bill to the government in August. The bill regulates the rules for sterilisation, castration, and sex-change operations as well as artificial fertilisation and abortion. The Czech Sexological Association is pushing for changes in the treatment of adolescent transsexuals. Its member Ivo Prochazka said this treatment would only be applied to the clear cases of transsexuals. The children's parents would have to approve the treatment. Prochazka added that the...
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