Editing Castration (section)

==== Modern era ====
[[Wim Deetman]] was criticized by the Dutch parliament for excluding evidence of castration<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/time-truth-about-catholic-sex-abuse-netherlands|title=Time for the truth about Catholic sex abuse in the Netherlands|work=RNW|access-date=21 March 2012| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120321230333/http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/time-truth-about-catholic-sex-abuse-netherlands|archive-date=21 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> in his report on sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church, where ten children were allegedly "punished" by castration in the 1950s for reporting sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. The Deetman Commission had rejected it as the person who reported the incident admitted it was speculative. 

In Spain, a law against castration was used to deny sex-reassignment surgery to transgender people until the Penal Code was reformed in 1983.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Transexualidades: Otras Miradas Posibles|last= Missé|first=Miquel|publisher=Editorial EGALES|year=2013|isbn= 978-84-15899-13-6|location=Barcelona|pages=37}}</ref>