# Belgian unhappy with sex change results gets euthanasia on demand

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561 "2013-10-07T04:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561/1 "2013-10-07T04:56:48Z")

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A sad tale, but I did not realize you can get personal euthanasia in Belgium on demand if you are psychologically tormented. I did not realize this was an option in European euthanasia.

[Belgian killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/10346616/Belgian-killed-by-euthanasia-after-a-botched-sex-change-operation.html)

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> Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of “unbearable psychological suffering” on Monday afternoon.
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> Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind.
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> “I was the girl that nobody wanted,” Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death.
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> “While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. ‘If only you had been a boy’, my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more.”

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561/2 "2013-10-07T06:16:17Z")

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Previous [GD](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=703697) thread.

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**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561/3 "2013-10-07T14:56:14Z")

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Such a sad, sad story. I don’t approve of euthanasia but I hope he (she?) is at peace.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561/4 "2013-10-07T14:57:25Z")

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“He” would be the correct pronoun.

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belgian-unhappy-with-sex-change-results-gets-euthanasia-on-demand/670561/5 "2013-10-08T07:47:56Z")

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His mom is a cow. At least Nathan is not suffering any more.