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The main keys of the Trans Law are two: that it stops considering transsexuality as a pathology and that it recognizes gender self-determination, that is, the ability of a person to register administratively and with all its legal effects according to the sexual identity they feel .
From that consideration pivots everything else, such as the new legal procedure to change sex.
SELF DETERMINATION.
These two keys mean that the trans person will be able to change their sex with their own will.
Without medical or psychological reports and without undergoing a two-year hormonal process.
Two current requirements that the law will delete.
Nor will she need witnesses to support her testimony.
A declaration before the
Civil Registry
will suffice , where you will have to fill out a form.
Within a maximum period of three months you will be summoned again to ratify the sex change request.
That is why there is talk of a double appearance.
The registry modification of the sex of birth will be official in one month.
Thus, the process is around four months.
AGE TO CHANGE SEX.
Self-determination is completely free from the age of 16.
From there, in minors below that threshold, there are conditions.
Between the ages of 14 and 16, parental permission is required, but in case of disagreement with them there is a way to access through a judicial defender.
Between the ages of 12 and 14, applications need the endorsement of a judge.
Under 12 years of age, transgender children may change their name and be treated according to their identity in schools, but they will not yet be able to legally change their sex.
GO BACKWARDS.
After six months, a trans person can request to return to her original gender in the same way that she requested.
If she wanted to modify it for the third time, then she would have to go through a judge, who would decide if there were signs of legal fraud.
This is intended to prevent someone from being tempted to continually change their sex.
SEXIST VIOLENCE.
Changing sex to female does not alter the fact that the law on gender violence is applied to a man who has committed the crimes before concluding the process.
HORMONATION.
Two years of treatment is no longer required.
Taking hormones, having surgery or adopting physical changes is totally voluntary.
Thus, the physical aspect does not prevent being treated under the same conditions as its official sex.
This goes for changing rooms, bathrooms or sports activities.
SCHOOLS AND SPORTS.
A trans person is a man or a woman for all purposes and in all areas.
From an institute to a jail.
The use of the facilities corresponds to what the new DNI dictates.
The same thing happens in an amateur and professional sports competition, although in the latter area, the law is limited to what is dictated by national or international laws, which regulate, for example, the level of testosterone.
LGBTI RIGHTS.
There are measures of impact on the LGTBI community such as the prohibition of conversion therapies or the recovery of the right of lesbians, bisexuals or single women to access assisted reproduction techniques within the National Health System.
The two lesbians in a couple will be considered biological mothers.
SANCTIONS.
There is a broad package to prosecute hatred and discrimination with administrative fines in which the burden of proof is reversed - that is, the accused must prove his innocence.
The "very serious" sanctions -from 10,001 to 150,000 euros- punish harassment or denying someone a job or rent for being LGTBI.
The light and serious fines for "using or issuing vexatious expressions" are controversial, since feminists who are critical of the law denounce that it will be used as a "gag" to silence them and withdraw their campaigns against the norm.
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