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

👉 Conversion therapy ban and fines

Fines up to €150,000 to the promotion or practice of aversion or conversion methods and therapies, whether psychological, physical or through drugs that are intended to modify the sexual orientation, sexual identity or gender expression

👉 Children of unmarried lesbian couples or trans men with capacity to gestate

They will be able to proceed to the non-marital affiliation by declaration of agreement in the same terms as in the case of heterosexual couples.

Until now, in Spain, for the biological mother's unmarried partner to be able to appear as the child’s parent, they had to adopt them, which meant a processing time during which this second parent had no right or obligation to the child

👉 Rights for intersex people

The norm prohibits all those practices of genital modification in children under 12 years of age, except in cases in which medical indications are required to protect the health of the person.

@marinaaisa oh that’s fascinating. Does it apply to circ*mcision as well? (I’m not sure about here, but on the birdsite you can’t mention the word without getting deluged by spammers.)
@Muppetk I believe that practice is not common in Spain, but good question