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 thank you for sharing this!! I didn't know about the intersex clause, that's wonderful to hear 🥲🥰 we tried to get this included in the legal change in Iceland a few years back but due to pressure and lobbying by doctors it was removed 🤬 do you have an idea of how effective this will be? I wonder bc often doctors will make up a medical reason for intersex surgeries that sound necessary even when they are not needed at all 😖
@villiljos @marinaaisa
the text machine translated says "All those practices of genital modification in persons under 12 years of age are prohibited. Except in cases where medical indications require otherwise in order to protect the health of the person"
@villiljos @marinaaisa I skipped the caveat it gives for those over 12 for brevity, my source is this pdf from 11 days before passing, they didn't ammend it so it should be the same https://www.congreso.es/public_oficiales/L14/CONG/BOCG/A/BOCG-14-A-113-1.PDF page 31
@villiljos @marinaaisa I spoke with a citizen (i'm an immigrant and so spanish legalese is a bit weird to me), and they're pretty sure "indicaciones medicas" means impediments to the draining of biological fluids or the child being in pain, and similar things, and anything ridiculous would open the doctor up to being sued when the kid turns 18+15 years (statute of limitations)

@amymagdalena @villiljos @marinaaisa the criteria here would be set by the college of medicine, basically the licensing body, based on evidence-based research. Ultimately the courts get to decide in the case of a malpractice suit.

That being the case, unnecessary operations are not the norm here, due to much of the healthcare being public, and so resources are managed to avoid that. Specifically, circumcision on any set of genitals is not the norm.

@moof @amymagdalena @marinaaisa the problem for intersex people is that their genital mutilation has always been approved, even mandated by colleges of medicine all over the world even though they're completely unnecessary & even when they mean lifelong medical interventions such as hormone replacement therapy that would otherwise not have been needed. The medical community at large seems convinced these are necessary regardless of any evidence to the contrary😔
@amymagdalena @marinaaisa thank you! That sounds like it's pretty fail safe and difficult to misinterpret 😁 hopefully doctors are also getting informed about how unnecessary these surgeries are, it's truly ridiculous how many of them seem convinced of their necessity 😵‍💫