Editing Compulsory sterilization (section)

===Denmark===
11,000 people were sterilized in Denmark from 1929–67, about half were sterilized against their will.<ref name=":21">{{Cite news |last=Jan|first=Olsen|date=29 August 1997|title=Denmark to investigate its involuntary sterilization program|url=https://apnews.com/article/e1731db26be41810f79e7e148d087a04 |work=AP News}}</ref> The forced sterilization program was "mainly was directed at people who were mentally handicapped" because of the popularity of eugenics at the time in Denmark.<ref name=":21"/> During the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of [[Greenlandic Inuit]] women and girls had IUDs placed without their consent. The birth rate in Greenland was reduced by around 50%. In 2022, Denmark and Greenland agreed to hold a two-year investigation into the program, known as the [[spiral case]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Murray |first=Adrienne |title=Inuit Greenlanders demand answers over Danish birth control scandal |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049387 |date=30 September 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref>

Until 11 June 2014, sterilization was requisite for legal sex change in Denmark.<ref>{{cite news
 |date         = 22 May 2018
 |title        = OVERBLIK: Transkønnedes kamp mod lovgivningen
 |url          = https://www.avisen.dk/overblik-transkoennedes-kamp-mod-lovgivningen_499227.aspx
 |language     = da
 |work         = avisen.dk
 |access-date  = 9 August 2018
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20180809184337/https://www.avisen.dk/overblik-transkoennedes-kamp-mod-lovgivningen_499227.aspx
 |archive-date = 9 August 2018
 |url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Denmark Ends Forced Sterilisation for Sex Change|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/denmark-ends-forced-sterilisation-for-sex-change-577321|access-date=2022-01-04|website=NDTV.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=B|first=Matty|title=Denmark Ends Forced Sterilization Of Transgender People|url=https://www.queerty.com/denmark-ends-forced-sterilization-of-transgender-people-20140613|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Queerty|date=13 June 2014 }}</ref>