The Government of Spain approved this Monday a bill that provides for the change of gender in the civil registry from the age of 12 without the need for a medical opinion, and from the age of 16 the will of the person is enough.
According to this proposal, which must be approved by parliament, You can change your gender in the civil registry, from the age of 12, without a medical opinionbut will be Authorization from a judge is required for cases between 12 and 14 years old and from parents or legal guardians between 14 and 16 years old.
For people over 16 years old, it will be enough who wants to make the change.
This is the second time that the Spanish Government has approved this proposalafter having advanced a year ago with the draft, which divided the Executive.
Known as the “gender self-determination” law, the proposal aims to remove the burden of gender change pathology.
“Every person has the right to be who they are without the mediation of witnesses,” said the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, at a press conference at the end of the council of ministers that approved the proposal.
The proposal also bans genital modification surgeries up to the age of 12 on children born with physical characteristics of either sex. (intersex children or hermaphrodites),
Secondly, the text enshrines the right of lesbian, bisexual and transgender people with reproductive capacity to access moderately assisted reproduction techniques and allows children of lesbian and bisexual mothers to enroll without the need for marriage.
The proposal was approved the same day that the Spanish press reported that a judge in Ourense (in Galicia, northwestern Spain) authorized the gender change in the documents of an 8-year-old boy.
The decision, cited by the EFE agency, considers that the child, a child registered with the female gender, is “sufficiently mature” and presents a “stable transsexual situation.”
The boy’s mother told Efe that it is “a great victory, a great step forward for the children and for all the groups that fight for the recognition of minors.”
In relation to her son, she said that “he always spoke in the first male person” and that at home they always let him “express himself freely in the way he dressed and played.”
“I hope that this is of some use and that minors can be heard,” he defended, saying that it makes no sense to ask the psychiatric teams for reports “because this is not a disease.”
The woman regretted that the bill that will be debated by the deputies does not cover children.
Source: Observadora
