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(Radio France Internationale). Called Juanjo forks military. He has a beard and incipient alopecia. But he calls himself “Chairman”feminine, associations Non-normative trans. Because Juanjo says that she is
(Radio France Internationale). Called Juanjo forks military. He has a beard and incipient alopecia. But he calls himself “Chairman”feminine, associations Non-normative trans. Because Juanjo says that she is a woman, and that she appears on the register of her own free will.
Like Juanjo, a Sevillean Francisco Javier He is also a military man and went to the registry office to change his gender and identify himself as a woman, although keeps his name And male appearance. Francisco Javier, almost two meters tall and with tattoos on his neck, complains that at work he is not allowed to use the women’s locker room.
“I can’t continue to wear clothes that contradict my gender,” she explains in an interview with the publication. Seville newspaper in which he refuses to take hormones or have surgery. “I like my body and I’m not going to change it,” he says.
Juanjo or Francisco Javier are some of the cases that occurred in Spanish media men (most of them military or security forces) who have been trying in recent months to change their gender on the registry without losing an iota of their masculine appearance or their masculine name.
They can do this thanks to the February 2023 passage of the Real and Effective Transgender Equality and LGBTI Rights Guarantees Act, better known as “trans law”. This is a controversial rule promoted by a former minister Irene Monteroprogressive formation Maybecaused opposition in some feminist sectors to inclusion “gender self-determination”a principle that has also been enshrined in the laws of twenty countries around the world, such as Sweden or Germanywhich they did in 2024.
Photo: EFE | Podemos leader Ione Belarra with former minister Irene Montero
Thanks to these legislative changes in Spain hormonal treatment for two years and psychiatric diagnosis gender dysphoria as requirements for gender reassignment in the official registry. Now it is enough to request changes in writing, and approve the decision three months later.
Thus, Costa Rica’s recommendation has been implemented. Victor Madrigal-BorlozUN expert on gender identity, who strives to make the “administrative process” “simple” in legal recognition of gender identity, “without requiring intrusive or abusive measures such as surgery or hormonal treatment,” as noted in a report published in 2021.
According to the sociologist and political scientist Ignacio ParederoOrganizing Secretary of the State Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual, Intersex and Others (FELGTBI+), the new law aims to facilitate gender reassignment because “It is known that when this process is difficult for a very vulnerable population, these people are not going to even try.”. Statistics from the first year of the “trans-law” confirm this statement, since during this time they were 5.139 That People that in Spain, 61% of people in the registry requested a gender change from male to female, which is four times more than last year.
What the official numbers don’t show are the alleged cases of men using registration changes for “false interests”—as Ignacio Paredero describes them—to gain an advantage in the workplace.
“We had a meeting with government representatives and they told us that the allegations in this regard are completely anecdotal,” says a FELGTBI+ spokesperson.
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However, since the “trans-law” came into force, cases have constantly appeared in the press. One of the first to register in the process of contacting the local police of the municipality of Torrelodones in Madrid. There, the man claimed that he wanted to take the physical tests as a woman because he felt like a woman, even though his registration stated that he was a man, which is how he passed the first exam. In support of his claim, the applicant submitted a notarial deed in which he asked to be registered as a transsexual woman.
“These are not residual cases and they jump when there are men who are in opposition, where there are different demands on men and women,” says Ángeles Álvarez, a former Socialist MP and representative of the Alliance Against the Erasure of Women, very critically. Spain’s “trans law” allows “anyone to create this sexual fiction without any strings attached.”
“The element that permeates the law and distorts everything is that you are what you feel, and that has social consequences that we are already seeing,” he adds.
Official data provided by the Spanish government on sex changes in the registry during the first year of the “trans-law” included a surprising 40 cases from Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the coast of northern Morocco, where some 80,000 people. There’s almost 90% gender change occurs from male to female. Newspaper Ceuta lighthouse In information published in February last year, they assured that many of the requests came from officials state security forces And Armed forces.
Ignacio Paredero from FELGTBI+ admits that “the law has been created, the trap has been set” and calls on the prosecutor’s office to investigate these cases “fraud” which sometimes have “obvious political intent”.
“This is very upsetting for transgender people because cases like this are bullying. We fought for this law and now there are people who are putting it in danger, so they say that the law is a leak,” Paredero denounces.
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Despite his critical stance towards the law, Angeles Alvarez agrees, noting that there are men associated with Spanish far right already anti-feminist organizations, “gentlemen with a definitive conviction for violence” who request a gender change in order to “regularly attend the services that the administration offers to abused women.” Situations that FELGTBI+ believes could be avoided through “delayed monitoring” of gender reassignment requests.
“If there are attempts at fraud, we must find a way to reverse these frauds, because the culprits are the fraudsters, not the transgender people,” defends Ignacio Paredero, who delegates this responsibility to the judges in charge of civil registries.
This is what Judge Matias Martinez did, the first to deny gender reassignment in Spain, because he valued “legal fraud” at the request of two military personnel who asked to register as women in the Canary Islands. As the judge explained in an interview with the newspaper A country, “Trans-law frauds are detected as soon as they cross the threshold”.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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