With 188 votes in favour, 150 against and seven abstentions, the bill must now be passed by the Senate. The new law allows gender reassignment without medical reports from age 12, but with requirements for children under 16.
Euskaraz irakurri: Trans Legea onartu du Espainiako Kongresuak, Carmen Calvo sozialistaren abstentzioarekin
The Congress of Deputies The trans law was passed this Thursday with the support of all groups supporting the coalition government and with votes against the People’s Party, Vox and Ciudadanos, which gave its members freedom to vote at the last minute.
This brings to an end a process of almost three months in the House of Representatives that was fraught with controversy from the start because of the lack of agreement between the government partners. Part of socialism, led by the former vice president of the executive branch, Carmen bald, was critical of the lyrics, especially regarding gender self-determination and its implications for women’s rights. “I agree that there is a law, but not this law,” he said at the end of today’s vote.
The PSOE presented several legislative amendments, although aimed at limiting the self-determination of minors and strengthening the transgender reversal process, but in committee it did not get the favorable vote from any group for its initiatives and in the end it decided against these proposals for the legislative debate in the plenary.
The text, which must now enter its phase of hearing in the Senate, recognizes the will of the person as the only requirement to change gender on the Registry and in the case of minors under 16 and over 14 they will be required to attend with their parents or guardians. For the change of registration, the intervention of a judge is only necessary if they are younger than 14 years and older than 12 years.
Children under the age of twelve cannot change their sex on the registry, but their name can be on the DNI.
It prohibits conversion therapy, guarantees access to assisted reproductive technologies for lesbian, bisexual and transgender people with the potential to conceive, and recognizes the ancestry of lesbian and bisexual children without requiring them to be married.
And, among other things, a State strategy for the social inclusion of transgender people is being considered with positive action measures for this group in various areas such as work, education or housing.
Equality Minister Irene Montero and Unidas Podemos delegates let the House of Commons into the streets, cheered by more than fifty people, who waited for them on the steps of Congress to be photographed at the gates of the lions. With LGTBI and trans flags and the throwing of flares, the groups received the minister before taking the photo.
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