60°12.180′, 024°53.975′ At foot of pole, not wheelchair accessible
”I started going to the meetings of the Transgender Support Center. My friends didn’t know I was transgender and thought I was still a man. I wore men’s clothes to work and at home, but you couldn’t go to the meetings “in a lie”, meaning in men’s clothes. So before the meetings I would always change my pants into a skirt at a gas station. But not my other clothes. You had to wear a skirt because it represents something that men almost never wear.” Tiia
The first association of transgender rights, Trasek, was founded in Helsinki in 1984. Seta founded its own transgender support center in 1994. Finland’s Transgender Act came into effect in 2003, but it was criticized from the very start for violating human and basic rights; the preconditions for confirmation of gender are that the person has to be not married, unable to reproduce and legally adult. The confirmation requires favoring statements from two University hospitals. Transgender activists demand that the law should be changed so that the legal confirmation of gender would require only a declaration from the person her/himself.