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.
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(Ceske Noviny)
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