Transgender minors can now change their name

Justice facilitates the change of name of transsexual minors

GAYLES.TV.- The Civil registers throughout Spain will facilitate the name change of transsexual minors who request it. The Association of Families of Chrysallis Transsexual Children esteem that 500 transsexual minors they may be waiting to request a name change. Finally it will no longer be necessary to provide reports from «gender dysphoria»Or similar, nor the passage through forensic examinations that implied an impairment in the dignity of the person.

People of legal age and emancipated minors (older than 16 autonomous years) that request a change of name that corresponds to their meaningful gender different from the sex registered in the registry when they were born, they may do so whenever they declare before the person responsible Civil Registry or by public document that «you feel the sex corresponding to the requested name»And that it is not possible to obtain the change in the registration of sex in the Civil Registry for not meeting the requirements of Article 4 of the Law 3 / 2007, of March 15. Recall that the mentioned article referred to the accreditation of having been diagnosed gender dysphoria and medically treated for at least two years to adapt its physical characteristics to those of the sex claimed.

In the case of people responsible for the minor they must declare before the person in charge of the Civil Registry or in a public document that the person feels like the sex corresponding to the requested name in a clear and incontestable manner. In the case of 12 over years they must sign the application, and in the under 12 must be escorted by a person from the Civil Registry through a comprehensible communication adapted to the age and the degree of maturity.

Currently, Chrysallis has posted 120 cars authorizing the change of name to minors and 27 de name and sex.