Trans in prison without pathologization

In the prisons of Catalonia, trans * persons may request and choose the destination prison, without the need for psychological or psychosocial reports. A breakthrough in relation to the state pathologizing regulations of 2006

GAYLES.TV.- A new prison instruction signed between the Minister of Justice of the Generalitat, Ester Capella and Minister of Treball, Afers Socials and Famílies, Chakir El Homrani, broadens the assumptions of a law on the situation of transgender inmates. The measure will allow requesting entry or transfer to a unit depending on the gender with which they identify, no need psychological or psychosocial report and may choose the prison.

There is a regulation in Spain from the 2006 that does allow trans people to be transferred without the need to prove sex change but that pathologizes transsexuality Given the It is subject to a psychological and psychosocial report by the penitentiary management and there is no possibility of choosing the destination center.

The final decision on requesting a transfer will always depend ultimately on the reports provided by the prison and the Department of Justice.

The instruction is part of the deployment of the 11 / 2014 for LGBTI rights, as Chakir El Homrani comments on Twitter: «Today we make a historic step in the defense of the trans * collective. Trans * internal people may be in the module of their gender sense. He @govern he defends the rights and freedoms of people in every policy he does. Respect for diversity is the basis of coexistence.» The consellera Ester Capella He has referred to the measure: "We give out to people deprived of liberty who cannot or do not want an official change but who feel of a different gender from the one assigned to them at birth."

Although the instruction has been adopted in the field of prison intitutions that depend on the Generalitat de Catalunya, the possibility of other transgender inmates from the rest of the State is contemplated. It will be necessary for this to demonstrate family roots in Catalonia or a DNI that certifies its origin or previous registration.

“I was isolated for my safety. To avoid problems. Men are there alone and when they see a woman, be it 'trans' or 'cis', they go crazy. ”

The prison population of Catalonia currently has 14 trans women *. Three of them, after requesting it, have been transferred and continue with their conviction in the women's prison of Wad Ras en Barcelona where they have lived with other dams for a month. The transfer does not require that the person requesting it has made a change of sex effective or that their documentation has changed with a new identity. In fact, two of Wad Ras's new inmates, Paula and Khalani They have documents that still appear as men.

Paula, from 19 years and from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, requested the change to women's center because in its previous prison it was separated from inmates: “I was isolated for my safety. To avoid problems. Men are there alone and when they see a woman, be it 'trans' or 'cis', they go crazy. ”