The PSOE accepts the Trans Law without changes in the free choice of sex

• Congress The PSOE loses the battle against Podemos in the Trans Law after its amendment on minors is rejected

The PSOE loses the battle of the Trans Law against Podemos.

The

yesterday rejected the socialist amendment on gender self-determination that sought to require that minors under 16 years of age have to go through a judge to change their sex.

The

defeated the PSOE with the votes of the PP and Vox, in addition to those contributed by Sánchez's partners in the investiture.

The PP refused to come to the aid of the PSOE.

«We are not going to modify our ideology to save a problem for the Government.

Either they drop the law or they accept the reform of Podemos.

leadership assure this newspaper

, which also wears the Executive down on the Trans Law.

In his opinion, an "exhausted" government that must call elections "now" is visible.

After what happened yesterday, the Trans Law will be approved on

in the plenary session of Congress with the theses of United We Can and without changes in the nuclear points of the text that came out of the Council of Ministers.

And it will be so because the PSOE has already announced that it will give the project the green light even if it does not incorporate its proposals.

PSOE's last trick

The PSOE could play one last trick to try.

He could still take his amendment on minors to that plenary session and force a last vote.

However, it is impossible for it to prosper if it fails to convince the PP to make a 180-degree turn.

And it is that, the

warned that they will vote against again because they consider that this amendment is only “makeup”.

The vote was held yesterday in a session full of nerves and uncertainty, where all the groups and the representatives of the

looked askance at the PP because nobody had any information on what it was going to do in the end, despite the fact that the popular votes were decisive to tip the balance of the PSOE amendment.

"Things are very

... because of the mystery," socialist sources described the situation.

The key point of the Trans Law debate focused on the so-called gender self-determination, that is, the ability of a person to change their sex by themselves in the Civil Registry without having to present

or psychological reports and without the need to take hormones. for two years, two requirements that are still in force today.

Specifically, the struggle between PSOE and Unidas Podemos occurred in its application to minors.

The wording of the text issued by the Council of Ministers at the request of Equality states that from the age of 12 to 14 the minor needs the permission of a judge to change their sex and that from the age of 14 to 16 they can do so with the permission of the parents, although a door was opened to being able to do so even with their opposition through a judicial defender.

From the age of 16 the process is completely free and without any conditioning.

The PSOE amended this article to demand that minors between the ages of 12 and 16 have to go through a judge to determine themselves.

In other words, it raised that requirement contemplated for younger people.

The central argument of the socialists is that it gave more "legal security" before the appeal of unconstitutionality.

However, Unidas Podemos replied that this change attacked the "heart" of the law and rejected it because it "regresses in rights."

The PSOE, alone

The vote was resolved with 13 votes in favor (only those of the PSOE), 23 against and no abstentions.

Therefore, the amendment of minors is outside the text of the law.

Despite this setback, the Socialists later voted in favor of the opinion of the Trans Law, that is, of the whole of the law as it will remain.

When leaving the commission, the PSOE Secretary for Equality,

, assured that the Trans Law is not in danger "at all", that "it has never been in danger" and that it will be approved even without the changes in her party because now it is " everyone's heritage."

Her resignation contrasted with the euphoria of the purple wing after much tension.

The PP, which tipped the balance with its votes, denied that the PSOE amendment came "to improve the law at all" and was decisive in giving it the finishing touch.

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