The new Spain's "Trans Law" 🏳️‍⚧️ is historical. It doesn’t only improve rights for trans people but also for lesbian cis-women and intersex people.

I haven't read much info about it in English and I believe it’s such a good Christmas 🎁 for the LGBT community so I'll explain it 👇

@marinaaisa legit if i wasn't trying to plan surgeries i would be making serious moves to join you in barcelona >_>
@QuietMisdreavus most of surgeries for trans people are covered by the public Spanish Health Care System I believe. I don’t know if that changes anything 😅 I want you in Barcelona tho 🤗

@marinaaisa @QuietMisdreavus Welp, there’s no such a thing as the “Spanish Health Care System”, as post-Aznar almost every autonomy has their local system, and e.g. here in Castilla-La Mancha there’s no public healthcare whatsoever.

Here’s the autonomies that DO grant SRS afaik:

  • Andalucía
  • Madrid (might not do it for much longer but hey)
  • Catalonia
  • Euskadi
  • Valencia
  • Aragon
  • Asturias
  • Extremadura
  • Canarias

Might also get forwarded to another autonomy if you live at e.g. Navarre, from some quick double checking

@xerz @QuietMisdreavus You are right, public health care is an autonomy competence instead of national one. When I say "Spanish Health Care System" is just a simplification.

All the 17 autonomies have public healthcare competences, I don't understand why you say Castilla-La Mancha doesn't.

https://sanidad.castillalamancha.es/

Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha

@marinaaisa @QuietMisdreavus what I mean is that Castilla-La Mancha has no active gender clinics (even if there’s one on paper), no HRT and no SRS, so 0 trans healthcare – sorry for the ambiguity!

@xerz @QuietMisdreavus damn, I didn't know that about Castilla La Mancha health care system :/

This is why is important to legislate in a national level so there isn't inequalities like these ones between the autonomies.

@marinaaisa @QuietMisdreavus it’s alright, seems like nobody gets how things work here until they deal with them – not much support from the public here either and no state-wide legislation in sight but at least I’m lucky enough to have private healthcare for now…