The Constitutional Court annuls the article that limited this possibility only to the elderly of 18 years

GAYLES.TV.- El Constitutional Court has established that minors trans with "enough maturity»And that they are in a«stable situation of transsexuality»Can demand a change of sex in the Civil Registry. The high court has annulled the article of legislation that limited this possibility only to those who had more than 18 years. The decision of the 12 magistrates has had two particular votes against the ruling.

Until now, the 2007 law regulated that «Any person of Spanish nationality, of legal age and with sufficient capacity to do so, may request the rectification of the registration of the sex«.

El Supreme doubted the constitutionality of the restriction of the age of majority «when it is a minor with sufficient maturity, who makes a serious request to be in a stable situation of transsexuality, and when the discrepancy between psychological sex and registration causes feelings of vulnerability, humiliation and anxiety incompatible with the demands of the right to the moral integrity of art. 15 of the Constitution and health, understood in its most integral sense of physical and moral well-being, of art. 43 of the Constitution, and exposes him to public knowledge of his transsexual status every time he has to identify himself in the school environment, of relations with public administrations, etc., with the violation that this implies of his right to the privacy of art. . 18.1 of the Constitution«.