The text allows you to change the sex appearing on identity papers without any other approach than a public declaration of non-compliance with the sex assigned to birth.
per Sandrine Morel (Madrid, correspondent)
After months of heated debate, which divided the left and the feminist movement, the Spanish Parliament approved, Thursday, February 16, the “real and effective equality law”. The text was adopted by 191 votes for (the socialist party, the radical left of Podemos and the nationalist Basque and Catalan parties), 60 against (Vox, extreme right) and 91 abstentions (the popular party, moderate right).
He devotes the right to “gender self-determination”, that is to say the possibility of changing the sex appearing on identity papers without any other approach than a public declaration of non-compliance with the Sex assigned to birth. “This law allows everyone to be who he is, without shame, without fear and without discrimination,” said the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, member of Podemos, who defended this text against all odds For almost three years so that he arrives safely.
The law aims to combat the discrimination which transgender persons are victims and “osthology” transidentity, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), which withdrew it in 2019 from the list of mental disorders. The text strengthens sanctions in the event of discrimination of trans persons, whether in access to housing or employment. He prohibits conversion therapies aimed at changing their gender identity. And it allows trans men having retained their “gestation capacity” to have access to assisted reproduction techniques of the national health system.
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Sex indicated in the civil register will be the one who will be taken into account, both for athletes, when participating in competitions, and for delinquents and criminals, when being imprisoned in prison. A scenario that caused one of the controversies behind the resignation of the Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, as the Popular Party recalled.
Fourteen of the seventeen Spanish autonomous regions already had “trans laws”, some since 2014, allowing anyone to change the name and sex appearing on their health card, without medical relations or any proof, and All children to change their first name and freely define their gender identity at school. Only Asturias and Castile-et-Léon had not legislated on this issue. Elsewhere, these laws have often been approved thanks to the abstention of the People’s Party, sometimes even unanimous. Without ever raised controversy.
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