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.
👉 LGBT people in rural areas
Equality in access to services for LGTBI people in rural areas, in the same conditions as people residing in urban areas.
Study and data collection of the LGBT migration from their local residences due to rejection, discrimination or violence.
Source in Spanish by
El Pais: https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-12-22/el-congreso-aprueba-la-ley-trans.html
Bonus track:
This is the emotional video when the Spanish parliament approved the Trans Law, this past Thursday. 🥹👏
Edit: Many people are asking about "gender dysphoria being a term no longer accepted by the scientific community".
I think the original source (El País) refers to WHO removing ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ from their diagnostic guidelines:
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/gender-identity-disorder/65852/
I'm not an expert in the topic, so sorry if I mix terms. I'm just trying to translate as better as possible to English.
@marinaaisa Yo hablo de oídas nada más. Creo que antes la disforia se entendía como que tu mente estaba mal porque no aceptaba el sexo de tu cuerpo, es decir, trataban el ser trans como una enfermedad.
Ahora creo que se usa disforia para referirse a que sientes que tu cuerpo no es como tiene que ser, pero se considera una cosa a tratar más sobre el cuerpo, no como un problema mental.
En el fondo es lo mismo pero reconociendo la identidad de género como algo no patológico. Creo
@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.
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
good catch! I think the original article in Spanish should be referring to ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ diagnosis instead of gender dysphoria. I just translated it.
More info: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/gender-identity-disorder/65852/
@marinaaisa @funcrunch @ChazBrenchley The old law definitely speaks about gender dysphoria:
1. La rectificación registral de la mención del sexo se acordará una vez que la persona solicitante acredite:a) Que le ha sido diagnosticada disforia de género.https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2007-5585@antonia @ChazBrenchley @funcrunch
What is the difference between "Gender Identity Disorder’ and "gender dysphoria"? I'm asking because I don't really know.
Thanks for your time.
@marinaaisa worth noting “gender self-determination” here is limited to a binarist choice between two letters and nothing else, but it’s still an improvement due to the aforementioned
also yes, there’s a weird tendency to not talk about Spain in the news no matter how important it is, it sometimes feels like a bit of a conspiracy but 
I've seen such dramatic change in Spain over my lifetime from a far right dictatorship to a progressive, liberal nation with a vibrant civic society.
@Jollyspaniard agree! but it's important to remember than before the dictatorship there was the Spanish Second Republic which was super progressive too.
That's why the civil war started, because of the fascists who rase up against the Second Republic. I recommend this film a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6SAcAled8k
@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:
@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:
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.
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