The Government has published the blueprint for the controversial law which aims to give transexuales real and effective equality.
The new law, if approved, will mean transexuales can alter their legal gender on their identity cards (DNI) without having themselves declared as “ill.”
The blueprint must go through a consultation process before passing to Congress for approval.
If approved, Spain joins a few other countries (including Argentina and six EU countries including Portugal, Malta and Denmark) to depathologise the recognition of identity in accordance with pressure from various international organisations.
The norm recognises that every person of 16 years or more may apply to the Civil Register to rectify the “sex” registered for them. It reforms the law of 2007 which allows for this procedure but requires a report which diagnoses a “gender dysphoria” plus two years of hormone treatment.
Under the new law transexuales would be able to go through this procedure by making a declaration of their will and reaffirming this after three months.
