• Equality The keys to the Trans Law: sex change in 4 months, from the age of 12, without a doctor or hormones

Congress has definitively

approved

the Trans Law.

This means that Spain will now recognize the so-called gender self-determination, that is, the possibility that a person can change their sex by themselves for all legal purposes in the Civil Registry without anyone being able to demand medical reports to prove gender dysphoria or the obligation to take hormones for two years.

It will be totally free from the age of 16 and with certain conditions depending on the age from the age of 12.

The approval of the law has come after many months of bitter political and social debate on the implications and effects of this rule.

In that time, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has seen the vehement opposition of the PP and feminist associations, but also within the PSOE itself.

First within the Government and later in Congress, the majority partner of the Executive branch has raised significant objections to the law, even doubting the constitutionality of aspects such as that of minors, until it lost its grip and ended up assuming the text as it is. how are you doing.

It has been these difficulties that have led the Minister of Equality to recognize in Congress that the law has managed to move forward "against all odds."

"We have taken as big a giant step as we could, but very few people trusted that this was possible," Montero said in plenary before the vote.

Faced with the celebration of the minister of Unidas Podemos, the PP has warned of the "irreversible problems" that this law will cause, mainly among minors, and has warned of the suffering and "tears" they expect.

For this reason, he has lamented that the Trans Law is a "new yes is yes".

Gender self-determination, that is, the ability to proceed to the change of sex by oneself, is completely free from the age of 16.

From there, in minors below that age 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, trans children may change their name and be treated according to their identity in schools, but they will not be able to legally change their sex yet.

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