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 👇

👉 Gender self-determination

The registry change of the name and gender in the ID will happen by judicial endorsement at ages 12—14; by the legal representatives' consent at ages 14—16; and free from the age of 16. It was already regulated in 15 out of 17 regions of Spain

👉 Depathologization

The text eliminates the medical requirements that until now were necessary: 2 years under hormones and a medical or psychological report that endorsed the existence of gender dysphoria, a term no longer accepted by the scientific community

@marinaaisa - ooh, I didn't realise "gender dysphoria" had been deprecated. What terms are preferred now, please?

@ChazBrenchley @marinaaisa

I'm a US-American trans person and didn't think that gender dysphoria is "a term no longer accepted by the scientific community" either. Maybe this is a translation issue? If it just means that a diagnosis of gender dysphoria is no longer necessary for a legal change of gender, that I could understand.

@funcrunch @ChazBrenchley @marinaaisa This was also news to me, but it seems ICD-11 (which came into effect this year) uses the term "gender incongruence". DSM-5 still uses "gender dysphoria". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria?wprov=sfla1
Gender dysphoria - Wikipedia

@GPHemsley @funcrunch @ChazBrenchley @marinaaisa That is a preferable term, since dysphoria implies a psychological problem that can be "fixed" with therapy or medication.
@CaroCrow @GPHemsley @funcrunch @marinaaisa - ah, got it. Thank you!