Art. 2 of the Swedish Constitution prohibits discrimination on the grounds of ‘gender […] or any other circumstance affecting the individual’. As a result, trans* people are better protected compared to the German Basic Law, which only states ‘gender’. In 1972, Sweden was the first country to adopt a law on the adaptation of the registered gender and name, which, however, required applicant to be unmarried and ‘sterilised’. In 2013, these conditions of the application were amended so that for a change of name and gender now ‘only’ medical diagnosis has to be submitted. However, as in Belgium it is not possible to register a gender beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’. Since 2018, those who have been sterilised under the 1972 law have been able to apply for compensation. In 2009, a law prohibiting discrimination on the ground of ‘transgender identity or expression’ came into force. In 2017, anti-hate speech laws were also extended to the discrimination against trans* people.